University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford
by Graham Midgley (
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0300068131
- ISBN 13
- 9780300068139
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About This Item
New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 0300068131 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished. Graham Midgley draws on and quotes from a variety of contemporary sources - newspapers, diaries, journals and memoirs, satirical pamphlets, poems, manuscripts, reports from foreign visitors, betting books, and recipe books. He reveals the pleasures and sadnesses, the sobriety and excess, the exuberance and idleness of college and university life. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144307
- Title
- University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford
- Author
- Graham Midgley (
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300068131
- ISBN 13
- 9780300068139
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London
- Date Published
- 1996
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