Classics in Britain
Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000
Christopher Stray
Reviews and Awards
"...the eighteen essays collected here, all but two previously published, unfold a record of past practices and the larger debates they engendered that offer much-needed perspective on our current travails...an invaluable resource as we look to our past for help in shaping our future." -- Sander M. Goldberg, University of California, The Classical Journal
"[Stray] has extensively researched the history of textbooks, and there is much curious detail here." -- John Taylor, University of Manchester, The Journal of Roman Studies
"Classics in Britain constitutes another clear and bright beam through the often opaque history of British Classics as a scholarly discipline... Perhaps the most precious feature of Stray's magisterial tome is his finely tuned ear to the periods' witty or ridiculous turns of phrase, his keen eye for enriching but not overburdening detail, and the occasional oddball fact, all of which make his writing about let's face it often austere, sometimes dry, subject matter both impressively learned and amusingly human." -- Emma Bridges and Henry Stead , Greece & Rome
"Over the past thirty years or so Christopher Stray has made himself uniquely expert in what might be called the sociology of British Classics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things... Stray offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed." -- Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review