Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

College-university relationships, the role of examinations, the politics of curriculum: papers amplify the picture of developments in Cambridge during the century.

List of contents

The Analytical Revolution from Below: Private Teaching and Mathematical Reform in Georgian Cambridge - Andrew Warwick
A parochial anomaly? The Classical Tripos 1822-1900 - Christopher Stray
'A mist of prejudice': the reluctant acceptance of Modern History at Cambridge, 1845-1873 - John Wilkes
Constructing knowledge in mid-Victorian Cambridge: the Moral Sciences Tripos 1850-70 - John R Gibbins
Learning to pick the easy plums: the Invention of Ancient History in nineteenth-century Classics - Mary Beard
The Revolution in College Teaching: St John's College, 1850-1926 - Malcolm Underwood
Trinity College Annual Examinations in the Nineteenth Century - Jonathan Smith
'Girton for ladies, Newnham for governesses' - Gillian R Sutherland
Models of learning? The 'logical, philosophical and scientific woman' in late nineteenth-century Cambridge - Paula Gould
Where did undergraduates get their books? - David McKitterick
'The advantage of proceeding from an author of some scientific reputation': Isaac Todhunter and his mathematics textbooks - June Barrow-Green
Afterword - Elisabeth Leedham-Green

About the author

Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Smith
• Assisted by: Jonathan Smith (Editor), Christopher Stray (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2001
• EAN: 9780851157832
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-783-2
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 243 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Series: History of the University of C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Geschichte der Pädagogik, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Higher, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History