
The Irish Classical Self Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Summary
The "classical strain" in the context of the non-elite may seem like an unlikely phenomenon but the volume exposes the truth in the legend of the classical hedge schools which offered tuition in Latin and Greek to poor students, for whom learning and claims to learning had particular meaning and power. This volume surveys official data on schools and scholars together with literary and other narratives, showing how the schools, inherently transgressive because of the Penal Laws, drove concerns about class and political loyalty and inspired seductive but contentious retrospectives. It demonstrates that classical interests among those "in the humbler walks of life" ran in the same channels as interests in Irish literature and contemporary Irish poetry and demands a closer look at the phenomenon in its entirety.
Author Biography
Laurie O'Higgins, Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, Bates College
Laurie O'Higgins was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and received her PhD in Classics from Cornell University. She teaches at Bates College in Maine, where she holds the position of Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, and her research focuses particularly on the question of "hearing" the voices of non-elite men and women in the context of classical studies.
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
0. Introduction
1. The Stage is Set
2. Books in Their Hands
3. Esteem, Seriousness, and Folly
4. Eighteenth-Century Views and Evaluations of Schools
5. Narratives of Scholars and Schools
6. The Educational Tide Turns
7. Talent and Genius in the Humbler Walks of Life
8. Conclusion
Appendices
A. Extract from "Archbishop Butler's Visitation Book" Volume II
B. "Amicus amico." Poem by Newby
C. 1824 Returns to the Second or Royal Commission on Education in Ireland
D. 1834 Returns Connected to the Second Report of the Commissioners of Public Instruction
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
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