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Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College Jonathan Bate

Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College By Jonathan Bate

Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College by Jonathan Bate


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This richly illustrated hardback celebration of Worcester will include much fascinating new research into the history of the College. Lively reminiscences from those generations past and present are included, along with memorabilia and vivid contemporary photography.

Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College Summary

Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College by Jonathan Bate

This richly illustrated hardback celebration of Worcester will include much fascinating new research into the history of the College, but it will offer far more than a tour through the archives. There will be sections on College life and College characters as well as our buildings and gardens, our books and pictures, our clubs and societies. Since it is the foundation as Worcester that we are remembering, the emphasis will be on more recent history - including such momentous events as the advent of women in 1979! - though there will of course be an account of our 'pre-history' as Gloucester College and Gloucester Hall, not to mention our brief interlude as the 'Greek College.' Lively reminiscences from those generations past and present will be included, along with memorabilia and vivid contemporary photography, to create a living portrait of Worcester which will be treasured by every Worcester alumnus and alumna.

About Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. His publications include Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (1986), Shakespearean Constitutions (1989), Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus (1995), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), two influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology (1991) and The Song of the Earth (2000), and a novel based indirectly on the life of William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love. His biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), as well as being short listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and the South Bank Show Award.

Table of Contents

There are sections on College life and College characters as well as buildings and gardens, books and pictures,clubs and societies. The emphasis is on more recent history - including such momentous events as the advent of women in 1979 - though there is an account of our 'pre-history' as Gloucester College and Gloucester Hall, and the brief interlude as the 'Greek College.'

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GOR009190752
9781906507725
1906507724
Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College by Jonathan Bate
Used - Very Good
Hardback
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20140228
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