Amazon.com: Tom Brown at Oxford/3 Vols in 2 (9780404619275): Thomas Hughes: Books

Hardcover
Publisher: Ams Pr Inc (August 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0404619274
ISBN-13: 978-0404619275

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,412,261 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Hughes: On Higher Education, November 24, 2001

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This book, and its prequel Tom Brown's Schooldays, is under-read in classes on the Victorian novel. Tom Brown at Oxford reads as a node in the nexus between Coleridge's early days and Hughes's anachronistic utopian efforts during the dawning of modernity.

Or, if you're more inclined to study "manly christianity" or the residual effects of Christian Socialism on the mind of Hughes, then this book is also for you.

Aside from the interesting critical aspects, the characters that Hughes creates in this book are the type of personalities that you laugh at while appreciating their earnestness. If you're particularly nostalgic, then you wish that you're own experience with higher education could be so quixotic.