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“dr christopher stray”

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  • Oxford Classics

    Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

    by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Marginal Comment

    A Memoir Revisited

    by Sir K. J. Dover, Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography – ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Scholarship and Controversy

    Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    Edited by Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

    John Wright’s Alma Mater

    Edited by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    John Wright's Alma Mater was the first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain. Yet this trailblazing and revealing work has never been reprinted since its appearance in 1827. Full of fascinating detail about college life, it discusses teaching, examinations and student socialising, including sport, hunting and recourse to prostitutes. A remarkable story of success and failure, it ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • A.E. Housman

    Classical Scholar

    by David Butterfield, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Remaking the Classics

    Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

    by Amanda Wrigley, Elizabeth Vandiver, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel, Stephen Harrison, Professor Lorna Hardwick, Dr. Christopher Stray, Deborah Roberts, Professor Sheila Murnaghan ...
    This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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    by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb ...
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    $12.39 USD

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  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

    by Linda C. Dowling ...
    "Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature"Dowling's study is an ... Read more

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  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Harris ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, ... Read more

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  • Seeking Meaning and Making Sense

    by John Haldane ...
    Collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding. ... Read more

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  • Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In ... Read more

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