Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Use and Abuse of Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

FAIN: FB-12126-74

Frank M. Turner
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To examine the use by Victorian writers of classical studies to battle for contemporary causes and to define their own values and ideals. The study will enable P.I. to expand his area of competence well beyond his present field of British history into ancient history classical scholarship.