History of universities xxxv/1 : the unloved century: georgian oxford reassessed /
Mordechai Feingold, Robin Darwall-Smith and Peregrine Horden.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (colour).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford Academic. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Preface / 1. The Problem of Georgian Oxford / PART 1. THOUGHT AND LEARNING -- 2. In the Centre and on the Periphery: The Paradox of Classics in Georgian Oxford / 3. Undergraduate Studies and the Collection Books at Christ Church / 4. Theology and Religion in Georgian Oxford: A Survey / 5. Arabic Studies in Eighteenth-Century Oxford / 6. Eighteenth-Century Antecedents and Rivals of Blackstone's Institutionalism / 7. 'Keeping' Natural Philosophy Alive in Eighteenth-Century Oxford: John Whiteside (1679-1729) and William Huddesford (1732-1772) / PART 2. ARTS AND LETTERS -- 8. George Clarke's Oxford: The Patriotic Creation of a Monumental City / 9. 'Gothick' and 'Sollid': Hawksmoor's Work at All Souls Reconsidered / 10. Part 1: Edward Young in England / Part 2: Cross-Channel Memorialisation: Edward Young in France / 11. Concert Life in Georgian Oxford / 12. Oxford and Cambridge Colleges as Patrons of Religious Art in the Eighteenth Century / PART 3. UNIVERSITY LIFE -- 13. The Eighteenth-Century Servants of All Souls College, Oxford / 14. The Great Survivor: Charles Butler, Earl of Arran, and the Oxford Chancellorship, 1715-1758 / Index. Peregrine Horden -- Robin Darwall-Smith -- Robin Darwall-Smith -- Judith Curthoys -- Robin Darwall-Smith -- Alastair Hamilton -- Mike Macnair -- Anna Marie Roos -- Matthew Craske -- Anthony Geraghty -- Clare Bucknell -- Catriona Seth -- Susan Wollenberg -- Peregrine Horden -- Norma Aubertin-Potter -- Nigel Aston --
This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.
9780191959516
10.1093/oso/9780192867445.001.0001 DOI
Education, Higher--History. Universities and colleges--History. Universities and colleges. Education, Higher.