2013. Oxford revisited (original) (raw)

2013. Oxford Revisited

Abstract

Correspondences and diaries offer a unique insight into students’ lives. Although any correspondence reflects a particular point of view through individual tastes or personalities, familial and social backgrounds which impact on students’ vision and way of dealing with life, they are fascinating because they are written from day to day and thus give experiences of Oxford not yet altered by the recollections of old memories or distorted through the writing of an imaginary narrative. Was Oxford regarded by new students as a vibrant and iconic city before its reforms in the 1860s and 1870s? How can correspondences shed a new light not only onto the “home of higher truths” but also onto the real Oxford?

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