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Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars de Daisy Dunn

Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

Autor Daisy Dunn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2024

Imaginați-vă un Oxford scăldat în soare, unde tinerii întorși din tranșeele Marelui Război încearcă să ignore trauma prin picnicuri cu șampanie și plimbări idilice cu barca pe râu. Paradoxul este frapant: în timp ce universitatea se prezenta lumii ca o Arcadie atemporală, un spațiu al visării și al erudiției pure, în spatele zidurilor de piatră veche se cocea un conflict la fel de acerb ca cel de pe front. Not Far From Brideshead ne introduce în această lume a contradicțiilor, unde libertatea proaspăt câștigată de femei pentru a obține diplome era dublată de o rezistență tacită a vechii garde.

Remarcăm modul în care Daisy Dunn construiește o narațiune cinematică despre rivalitățile dintre profesori, care au transformat amfiteatrele în câmpuri de luptă ideologică. Abordarea sa jurnalistică și agilitatea în utilizarea surselor de arhivă evocă rigoarea din The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VIII, dar perspectiva este mult mai intimă și nuanțată, concentrându-se pe drama umană și pe amenințarea ascensiunii nazismului. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Missing Thread sau Of Gods and Men, autoarea se concentra pe recuperarea vocilor feminine și a mitologiei clasice, aici ea aplică același ochi critic asupra istoriei moderne, arătând cum Oxfordul a devenit o „arcă a cunoașterii” în fața propagandei celui de-al Treilea Reich.

Merită menționat că volumul nu este doar o cronică academică, ci o analiză a modului în care intelectualii vremii au înțeles că istoria însăși trebuie apărată. Tonul este lucid și antrenant, reușind să echilibreze nostalgia pentru „visul Brideshead” cu realitatea brutală a unui război care bătea la ușă. Este o poveste despre oameni care, sub aparența unei securități false, au dus propriile bătălii pentru a salva integritatea culturii europene.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474615587
ISBN-10: 1474615589
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie culturală și de atmosfera universitară britanică. Veți descoperi un Oxford departe de clișeele idilice, marcat de rivalități academice și de efortul eroic de a proteja adevărul istoric în fața totalitarismului. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum mediul intelectual a reacționat la crizele interbelice, oferind o perspectivă documentată asupra unei elite aflate la granița dintre două lumi.

Descriere

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was.

After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed.The women of Oxford still faced a battle to emerge from their shadows. And among the dons a major conflict was beginning to brew.

This singular tale of Oxford colleagues and rivals encapsulates the false sense of security that developed across the country in the interwar years. With the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich came the subversion of history for propaganda. In academic Oxford, the fight was on not only to preserve the past from the hands of the Nazis, but also to triumph, one don over another, as they became embroiled in a war of their own.

Recenzii

Daisy Dunn's fascinating portrayal of academic Oxford in the first half of the 20th century is profoundly perceptive, frequently funny, and remarkably well written. Focussed mainly on the world of classical scholarship, she provides a lucid account of the professional and private lives of such remarkable figures as, among others, Gilbert Murray, Maurice Bowra, T.S. Eliot and Louis MacNeice, all depicted with an exceptional understanding not only of the characters themselves but the eccentric world which they inhabited.
Naturally the subject is one which will always interest me, having known all these people as "the grown ups" in my youth... an amazing book, elegantly erudite.
Focusing on the rivalry of three classical scholars, Daisy Dunn skillfully tells the story of Oxford between the wars: a story of passion, jealousy, debate, exuberance and foreboding.
A work of mature and meticulous scholarship that weaves a compelling picture of Oxford at a time when the world was turned on its head, but the university soldiered on, tolerating eccentricity and nurturing greatness.
A delightful study of idiosyncratic brilliance, Daisy Dunn's illumination of Oxford as a place of humane minds is uplifting.
The wide galère of interwar Oxford, with its High Table malice and wit, forbidden lust, and occasionally noble political convictions is encapsulating. For all the funny anecdotes and Brideheadian overtones of the era, sometimes decisions taken there had lethal consequences. The interaction of Dunn's three eccentric yet somehow emblematic Classics dons - Bowra, Murray and Dodds - stay in the mind long after the last page. This sparkling and fascinating book confirms the fact that Daisy Dunn's historical capacity reaches far beyond the Ancient World.
Echoes of Ancient Greece haunt the most eccentric of university cities in this poignant yet comic tale of hope and loss between the wars. Daisy Dunn writes with masterly control.
Eager and spritely, sometimes laugh-aloud funny, sometimes saddening, and narrated with the affability of a good-natured and digressive raconteur... delightfully conceived and consistently interesting.
The prodigious research...is obvious in the detailed, elegantly told story of a city in transition...Dunn, a leading female historian...offers a vivid portrait of a place of privilege and pranks.
Her erudition and energy are thrillingly applied...The effect is both refreshing and inspiring, like the first glass of champagne of the day... this is a witty and deeply researched book. It is full of revelations. She writes in an authoritative and hugely readable fashion and avoids anachronistic value judgements.
If your shelves heave with Brideshead Revisited, Zuleika Dobson, Gaudy Night, Northern Lights and Inspector Morse, you're going to love Daisy Dunn's dons...She has a gift for making the arcane accessible and the forbidding more friendly...Dunn eloquently captures this short-lived, vanishing world.
One of the joys of Dunn's fascinating book is her ability to control the comic tone and leaven it with sober and often moving details...Bowra's unwittingly disastrous part in Operation Valkyrie, the thwarted plot to assassinate Hitler, is rendered brilliantly, showing Dunn's acute abilities as a storyteller...this is an immensely readable and meticulously researched book.
Endlessly fascinating...this book is an absolute delight. Its strength lies in its focus on lesser-known figures over more obvious candidates. Dunn wears her serious scholarship lightly as she traces the interconnected lives of some of the finest minds of a generation.
Ebullient...Dunn writes with intelligence and verve.
Delightfully gossipy...Dr Dunn is a classicist, exuding knowledge of and enthusiasm for Greek literature.
In this clever, engrossing book, Daisy Dunn sets the myth of inter-war Oxford against the reality...it is this Oxford, brave and progressive as well as decadent, spiteful and shockingly misogynistic, that Daisy Dunn brings to life in this thoughtful, compelling history.
Ambitiously, ingeniously, she tells the public history of Oxford University between the wars through the interwoven stories of these three classicists... this is a bold, thoughtful, rollicking history, with splendid set pieces. Rosalind Howard's promotion of the Gilbert/Mary match is hilarious, and the 1936 Regius race a nail-biter.
Lively and readable... the successes and failures of this queer trio are fascinating and Dunn is illuminating... The bush is thick, but she manages to cut a path that is worth treading, even to those who feel they've seen enough of this period. Her prose is spry and racy.
Lucid, agile, juicy, nuanced... engrossing... The virtue of [books like this] is their brisk pen portraits, their patient explanation of ideas, and their dexterity with sources, not only the many books by their subjects, about their subjects, or both, but archival material.