The Space of Politics: Classics, Utopia, and the Defence of Order

Richard Alston

The Space of Politics: Classics, Utopia, and the Defence of Order

Department of Classics

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Abstract

This article examines the reimagining of cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to argue that Classics has been a means of obscuring class issues in the city.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Change
Subtitle of host publication	From Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Harold Wilson’s Cabinet
Editors	Edith Hall, Henry Stead
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Pages	183-196
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781472584267
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2015

Keywords

City
Classics
Class
utopia
urban planning

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