商品簡介
Ellis (British history, Humboldt-U zu Berlin) contends that the factors driving university reform at Oxford between 1800 and 1854 were more complex than the current historiography allows. She focuses on the increasingly problematic relationship between junior and senior members to argue that the British elite were nowhere near as cohesive in this period as most narratives of university reform assume. Instead of opposition along class lines, she suggests, tensions within the elite often played out along the border between youth and age. She covers riot, revolution, and reform in the colleges 1714-89; the new examination statute of 1800; the emergence of a junior reform program 1870-23; noetics, tractarians, and the peak of junior influence, 1824-36; and the tracterian threat and the royal commission of 1850. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Heather Ellis completed her DPhil in History at the University of Oxford (2009) and is currently Lecturer in British History at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. She has published widely on the history of higher education and masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain.
