Not far from Brideshead : Oxford between the wars / Daisy Dunn

First published

English

London : W & N, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [2022]

©2022

292 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4746-1557-0 (Hardback)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4746-1559-4 (Fernzugriff) (eBook), 978-1-4746-1560-0 (Fernzugriff) (Audio)

9781474615570

*University of Oxford / Geschichte 1918-1939

*University of Oxford -- History ; Oxford (England) -- History -- 20th century ; Oxford (England) -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945

*University of Oxford ; England ; Oxford ; History

Library of Congress Classification: DA690.O98

Dewey Decimal Classification: 942.57409041

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AL 65100: A Allgemeines / AL Hochschul- und Universitätswesen / England

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: HM 1091: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / Einzelnes

After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock. It was displacing to be surrounded by aristocrats who liked nothing better than to burn furniture from each other's rooms on the college quads for kicks. The women of Oxford still faced a battle to emerge from their shadows. And among the dons a major conflict was beginning to brew.

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