Oxford : A Cultural and Literary Companion, New Edition: 0 - Softcover

Horan; David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902669053 ISBN 13: 9781902669052

Publisher: Signal Books, 2007

Synopsis

Celebrated by Matthew Arnold as the "city of the dreaming spires", Oxford has a long and illustrious history as one of Europe's oldest university towns. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from the medieval to the modern, testify to the city's academic traditions and the dominant influence of "gown" over "town". But there is another Oxford, the city of car factories and housing estates, high-tech research and alternative culture. The University City: the seat of learning, inside the colleges, river and gardens, dons and students, "town and gown" conflict, the other university The Writer's City: Oxford loved and hated by Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde and CS Lewis; Alice in Wonderland, Zuleika Dobson, and Inspector Morse. The Other Oxford: cars and marmalade; saints and sinners, museums and mausoleums, tramps and tourists.

About this title

Review:

"Consistently readable." -- Oxford Times

"Highly recommended."
-- Oxford Mail

About the Author:

David Horan is an Oxford-based writer and was, for ten years, literary editor of the Oxford Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signal Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1902669053
• ISBN 13: 9781902669052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256