| Title: |
Sandow the modern Hercules:or the twelve labours of the class-conscious historian of British classics |
| Authors: |
Stead, Henry |
| Contributors: |
Stafford, Emma |
| Source: |
Stead , H 2024 , Sandow the modern Hercules : or the twelve labours of the class-conscious historian of British classics . in E Stafford (ed.) , Hercules performed : the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century . Metaforms - studies in the reception of classical antiquity , vol. 25 , Brill , Leiden , pp. 19-44 , Hercules , Leeds , United Kingdom , 24/06/13 . https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696938_003 |
| Publisher Information: |
Brill |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Description: |
This chapter presents the twelve ‘labours’ of the class-conscious historian of British classics, illustrating each labour in relation to the case-study presented by the father of modern bodybuilding, Eugen Sandow. 1) the definition of ‘class’ as a category of social analysis; 2) the important differences between the study of Classics and ‘popular’ culture and the study of Classics’ implication in the maintenance of economic and political lines of class exclusion; 3) the problem of subjectively perceived class ‘identity’ and its incommensurability with ‘objective’ socio-economic position; 4) the definition of ‘Classics’, whether as institution, curriculum, or cultural property; 5) the ‘ownership’ of cultural property; 6) the eroticization of classical visual culture; 7) in gender terms, the pervasive identification of ‘working-class’ with heterosexual masculinity; 8) the contradiction between the interests of the British working class and the subjects of the British Empire who laboured elsewhere; 9) the association between some working-class activists and racialist, eugenic and Aryanist ideas; 10) the impact of industrialization on the recreational life of the poorest Britons; 11) class mobility (in both directions); and 12) fraudulent self-presentation. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-90-04-69575-7; 90-04-69575-3 |
| Relation: |
urn:ISBN:9789004695757 |
| DOI: |
10.1163/9789004696938_003 |
| DOI: |
10.1163/9789004696938 |
| Availability: |
https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publications/528af251-c2c8-45cf-a52c-7de10d4d98ad; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696938_003; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696938; https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=isn%3A%209789004696938&rn=1 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6C6E69A1 |
| Database: |
BASE |