History of universities xxxv/1 : the unloved century: georgian oxford reassessed / Mordechai Feingold, Robin Darwall-Smith and Peregrine Horden.
Contributor(s): Feingold, Mordechai [editor.]
| Darwall-Smith, Robin [editor.] | Horden, Peregrine [editor.].Series: Oxford Academic: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]Publisher: ©2022Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (colour).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191959516.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- History | Universities and colleges -- History | Universities and colleges | Education, HigherGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional Physical Form: Print version: 9780192867445DDC classification: 378.009 Online resources: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192867445.001.0001 Also available in Print and PDF edition.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Preface / Peregrine Horden -- 1. The Problem of Georgian Oxford / Robin Darwall-Smith -- PART 1. THOUGHT AND LEARNING -- 2. In the Centre and on the Periphery: The Paradox of Classics in Georgian Oxford / Robin Darwall-Smith -- 3. Undergraduate Studies and the Collection Books at Christ Church / Judith Curthoys -- 4. Theology and Religion in Georgian Oxford: A Survey / Robin Darwall-Smith -- 5. Arabic Studies in Eighteenth-Century Oxford / Alastair Hamilton -- 6. Eighteenth-Century Antecedents and Rivals of Blackstone's Institutionalism / Mike Macnair -- 7. 'Keeping' Natural Philosophy Alive in Eighteenth-Century Oxford: John Whiteside (1679-1729) and William Huddesford (1732-1772) / Anna Marie Roos -- PART 2. ARTS AND LETTERS -- 8. George Clarke's Oxford: The Patriotic Creation of a Monumental City / Matthew Craske -- 9. 'Gothick' and 'Sollid': Hawksmoor's Work at All Souls Reconsidered / Anthony Geraghty -- 10. Part 1: Edward Young in England / Clare Bucknell -- Part 2: Cross-Channel Memorialisation: Edward Young in France / Catriona Seth -- 11. Concert Life in Georgian Oxford / Susan Wollenberg -- 12. Oxford and Cambridge Colleges as Patrons of Religious Art in the Eighteenth Century / Peregrine Horden -- PART 3. UNIVERSITY LIFE -- 13. The Eighteenth-Century Servants of All Souls College, Oxford / Norma Aubertin-Potter -- 14. The Great Survivor: Charles Butler, Earl of Arran, and the Oxford Chancellorship, 1715-1758 / Nigel Aston -- Index.
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.
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