Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Reihe: Camden Fifth Series
An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford: Volume 67
Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Reihe: Camden Fifth Series
ISBN: 978-1-009-49363-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left university in 1912. His letters, in Balliol archives and the State Library of Victoria, record his experiences at Balliol College, among a 'golden generation' decimated by the First World War, and on his extensive travels in Europe. They give a vivid picture of a continent on the eve of war, written by someone whose background afforded a degree of objectivity. Superficially, Oxford was still 'the apotheosis of the amateur', but Leeper's middle-class friends shared a progressive and socially responsible outlook. While he enjoyed college balls and tennis parties, his letters testify to a world shaken by political crisis and social change, and provide glimpses of emerging modernity, bringing out the complexities of a critical period in British and European history.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Principles; The Letters; Appendix: Members of Oxford University Mentioned in The Letters; Index.
