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John Stuart Blackie

John Stuart Blackie

Stoddart, Anna M.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

Miscellaneous LanguagesFiction AnthologiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1108011780
ISBN13: 9781108011785
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 22 2010
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
John Stuart Blackie (1805-1895) trained in law and studied divinity in Scotland and Germany before becoming a professor of Classics. Confident, well-travelled, vivacious, and outspoken, he delivered numerous public lectures, was instrumental in the founding of the Gaelic Chair at Edinburgh University, and published translations of many German and Classical works, as well as an impressive body of literary criticism. He was active in Radical politics, a strong opponent of the 1867 Reform Bill, and well-known for his eccentric dress. Anna M. Stoddart's detailed biography of Blackie, published in 1896, provides captivating insights into this extraordinary man's life and times by drawing on letters and papers provided by Blackie's widow and colleagues soon after his death. It remains a useful source for scholars interested in Scottish education or the experience of Scots abroad, as well as those studying nineteenth-century literature and literary criticism.

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