The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America /
This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. T...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis
- 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place'
- 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such'
- 4. Failure
- 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education
- Interlude: General introduction to Chapters six and seven
- 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval'
- 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London
- 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached
- 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest.