Filtered nostalgia of the 1920s: representations of the British university ideal
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Paper/Presentation Title | Filtered nostalgia of the 1920s: representations of the British university ideal |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Mason, Andrew (Author) and Gehrmann, Richard (Author) |
Editors | Harmes, Marcus K., Henderson, Lindsay, Harmes, Barbara and Antonio, Amy |
Journal or Proceedings Title | The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture: Refereed Proceedings |
ERA Conference ID | 80566 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | Toowoomba, Australia |
ISBN | 9780987408204 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.usq.edu.au/oac/Research/bwc |
Conference/Event | The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture (2012) |
Event Details | The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture (2012) The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture: Conference Event Date 02 to end of 05 Jul 2012 Event Location Toowoomba, Australia |
Abstract | Universities may be a place of personal development where intellectual, social and spiritual growth can occur in an environment that offers social mobility, but they are also the site of idealised fictions of nostalgia. There is a practice of reinterpreting nostalgia of the British (and in particular the English) university world for a modern audience and this fictionalised English university ideal provides an instantly recognised model. Our paper will interrogate sources of this manufactured image, beginning with that defining representation of the English university of the 1920s which appears in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. |
Keywords | universities; ethos; higher education; history |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390303. Higher education | |
430304. British history | |
Public Notes | Chapter 34. © The Contributors and Editors. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Faculty of Arts | |
Open Access College | |
Australian Digital Futures Institute | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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