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9781566563482

Oxford : A Cultural and Literary Companion

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    9781566563482

  • ISBN10:

    1566563488

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Summary

A new and innovative series offering in-depth cultural, historical and literary guides to the great cities of the world. More than ordinary guidebooks, they introduce the visitor or armchair traveller to each city's unique present-day identity and its links with the past.

Following in the footsteps of historic figures and writers, David Horan reveals the many dimensions, social and cultural, of a city where tradition and modernity interconnect. From the quadrangles and chapels of the university center to the multicultural bustle of the Cowley Road, he explores both the historic and contemporary faces of Oxford.

Author Biography

David Horan is an Oxford-based writer and was, for ten years, literary editor of The Oxford Times.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Colin Dexter
Preface ix
Introduction 1(7)
St Fridewide's Oxford
Ancient Oxford
8(4)
Church and University
12(5)
King Charles's Oxford
Christ Church
17(9)
The Cathedral
26(2)
Christ Church Meadows
28(2)
St Aldate's and Folly Bridge
30(2)
Corpus Christi
32(6)
Cardinal Newman's Oxford
The University Church of St Mary
38(3)
The Radcliffe Camera
41(1)
Brasenose College
42(6)
Lincoln College
48(3)
The Mitre and the Chequers
51(1)
The High
52(2)
All Souls
54(2)
The Queen's College
56(6)
Shelley's Oxford
University College
62(5)
The Examination Schools
67(1)
The Botanic Garden
68(2)
Merton Street
70(2)
Merton College
72(3)
Oriel College
75(5)
Sir Christopher Wren's Oxford
The Sheldonian Theatre
80(3)
The Bodleian Library
83(4)
Jesus College
87(3)
Exeter College
90(3)
Hertford College
93(5)
New College
98(7)
Oscar Wilde's Oxford
Magdalen College
105(6)
The Cherwell and St Catherine's College
111(4)
Rhodes House
115(3)
Wadham College
118(1)
Holywell Street
119(1)
Holywell Cemetery
120(4)
St Edmund Hall
124(8)
Archbishop Cranmer's Oxford
St Giles'
132(4)
St John's College
136(4)
Balliol
140(5)
Trinity College
145(2)
Blackwell's
147(4)
Dr Johnson's Oxford
Pembroke College
151(3)
St Aldate's
154(3)
Boars Hill
157(1)
St Ebbe's
158(1)
Oxford Castle
159(2)
St Peter's College
161(3)
Carfax
164(2)
Cornmarket
166(2)
Oxford Union
168(7)
Alice's Oxford
Rowing
175(1)
Godstow
176(1)
Port Meadow and Binsey
177(1)
The Railway Station
178(1)
Worcester College
179(2)
Ruskin College
181(1)
Jericho
182(1)
Oxford University Press
183(1)
Theatres
184(2)
Beaumont Street
186(2)
The Ashmolean
188(7)
C.S. Lewis's Oxford
Headington
195(3)
Tolkien
198(3)
The Headington Shark
201(5)
Lord Nuffield's Oxford
The Plain
206(2)
Cowley Road
208(3)
Cowley
211(2)
Iffley
213(6)
Inspector Morse's Oxford
North Oxford
219(2)
Lady Margaret Hall
221(1)
Somerville
222(3)
St Anne's & St Hugh's
225(2)
Postgraduate Colleges
227(1)
Keble College
228(2)
University Museum of Natural History
230(9)
Cutteslowe
239(2)
Further Reading 241(3)
Index 244

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