John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford: «I Loathe All Common Things»

ISBN-13: 9781787075061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 826 str.

Peter Raina

Opis

Presenting hitherto unpublished letters and papers which vividly evoke the contemporary Oxford scene, Peter Raina traces the many and diverse talents of this notable college figure. John Sparrow may have been a generalist, but he dabbled in depth in many disciplines and is deserving of this analysis.

Recenzje

It is a fascinating book, lucidly organized, and a deep well of knowledge not only about Sparrow himself (interesting enough), but also about Oxford as a whole in his time[...](The) treatment of Sparrow's boyhood is brilliant and revealing. Professor Henry Mayr-Harting

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Margaret Sparrow: The Mother - Mother's Darling - The Prep School: Childhood Passions - Winchester College - John Sparrow at Winchester College - A Passion for Debating and Poetry - A Trusted Wykehamist - «Oxford Must Begin Some Time» - «I Do Not Want Ever to Go Near a Jury» - «I Had No Desire for a Commission» - «It is the Thing I Want and Always Have Wanted» - Sparrow's Commemoration of Cyril Radcliffe - A Self-Fulfilling Job - Private Affairs: Homosexuality - John Sparrow's Memorial Address for Harold Nicolson - University and College - «What Mellors Did Was Unconventional and Even Perverse» - Keep Your Friendship «in Constant Repair» - Passion for Controversy - «My Dear Master» - «Shielding the Conservative Establishment» - Atticus' «Sparrow and the Hawks», The Sunday Times, 24 November 1968 - Document on University Freedom - Letter-Writing with Ease - «I Had Decided Not to be Disappointed if I Wasn't Elected» - «Here, with his Talents in a Napkin Hid, Lies One who Much Designed, and Nothing Did» - John Sparrow's «Words on the Air» - Death - Epilogue.

O autorze

Peter Raina is a distinguished historian with a long association with the University of Oxford, as Research Associate, St Catherine's College; Honorary Member of High Table and Member of the Senior Common Room, Christ Church; Senior Research Associate at the Graduate Centre, Balliol College; Associate Member of Nuffield College; Visiting Research Scholar, Faculty of History; and Honorary Member of the Senior Common Room, Magdalen College. He has also been a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, London; the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University; and the Centre for International Studies, LSE. He is a Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Knight Companion Grand Cross of the Order of St Stanislas.