History of Universities: Volume XXXV / 1 The Unloved Century: Georgian Oxford Reassessed

by Darwall-Smith, Robin; Horden, Peregrine; Feingold, Mordechai

• ISBN13: 9780192867445
• ISBN10: 019286744X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-12-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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 to 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
10a. Edward Young in England, Clare Bucknell
10b. 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