History of Universities XXXV / 1 (eBook, ePUB)

The Unloved Century: Georgian Oxford Reassessed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192693082
• Artikelnr.: 64114117

Autorenporträt

Guest Editors: Robin Darwall-Smith and Peregrine Horden. Robin Darwall-Smith is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, and a historian of Oxford. Peregrine Horden is a Fellow of All Souls College and a medieval historian.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1: Robin Darwall-Smith: The problem of Georgian Oxford
* Part 1: Thought and Learning
* 2: Robin Darwall-Smith: In the centre and on the periphery: the
paradox of Classics in Georgian Oxford
* 3: Judith Curthoys: Undergraduate studies and the collection books at
Christ Church
* 4: Robin Darwall-Smith: Theology and religion in Georgian Oxford: a
survey
* 5: Alastair Hamilton: Arabic studies in eighteenth-century Oxford
* 6: Mike Macnair: Eighteenth-century antecedents and rivals to
Blackstone's Institutionalism
* 7: Anna Marie Roos: Keeping Natural Philosophy Alive in
Eighteenth-Century Oxford: John Whiteside (1679-1729) and William
Huddesford (1732-1772)
* Part 2: Arts and Letters
* 8: Matthew Craske: George Clarke's Oxford: The Patriotic Creation of
a Monumental City
* 9: Anthony Geraghty: 'Gothick' and 'sollid': Hawksmoor's work at All
Souls reconsidered
* 10a: Clare Bucknell: Edward Young in England
* 10b: Catriona Seth: Cross-Channel Memorialisation: Edward Young in
France
* 11: Susan Wollenberg: Concert life in Georgian Oxford
* 12: Peregrine Horden: Oxford and Cambridge colleges as patrons of
religious art in the eighteenth century
* Part 3: University Life
* 13: Norma Aubertin-Potter: The eighteenth-century servants of All
Souls College, Oxford
* 14: Nigel Aston: The Great Survivor: Charles Butler, Earl of Arran,
and the Oxford Chancellorship, 1715-1758