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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
