Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1895) condemns an elite and inaccessible system of Victorian higher education. While the influence of the novel on the social and political discourses of the 1890s is well known, its subsequent appearance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates on university access remains less recognised. The four non-literary texts considered in this essay evoke Jude the Obscure in order to highlight particular aspects of higher education in their own time. They understand Jude in radically different ways, associating Hardy’s character with either progressive or conservative conceptions of universities. This essay ends by considering recent developments surrounding access to higher education. It suggests that the co...
The English poet and dramatist Thomas Lovell Beddoes travelled to Germany in 1825 to study medicine ...
This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by draw...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English."Dec...
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy has always been considered a novel in which the concept of the trad...
The late nineteenth-century England witnessed rapid modernization and important reforms of education...
This article discusses two prevalent tensions in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: Jude’s failed atte...
The paper unveils some salient issues in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in order to further illumin...
This paper examines the problematic nature of western reliance on class-based societies through look...
Literature is one of the subjects in the English Department of Widya Mandala which is separated into...
This paper considers some of the ways that schools play a role in shaping higher education (HE) deci...
This chapter makes the case for a history of higher education institutions which looks beyond the un...
Thomas Hardy once referred to his masterpiece Jude the Obscure as \u27tragedy, told for its own sake...
This paper intends to assess the Universities Tests Act 1871 in the British history of universities ...
As one of the prominent ideologies of the nineteenth-century— in a complex interrelation with other ...
In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of ...
The English poet and dramatist Thomas Lovell Beddoes travelled to Germany in 1825 to study medicine ...
This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by draw...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English."Dec...
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy has always been considered a novel in which the concept of the trad...
The late nineteenth-century England witnessed rapid modernization and important reforms of education...
This article discusses two prevalent tensions in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: Jude’s failed atte...
The paper unveils some salient issues in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in order to further illumin...
This paper examines the problematic nature of western reliance on class-based societies through look...
Literature is one of the subjects in the English Department of Widya Mandala which is separated into...
This paper considers some of the ways that schools play a role in shaping higher education (HE) deci...
This chapter makes the case for a history of higher education institutions which looks beyond the un...
Thomas Hardy once referred to his masterpiece Jude the Obscure as \u27tragedy, told for its own sake...
This paper intends to assess the Universities Tests Act 1871 in the British history of universities ...
As one of the prominent ideologies of the nineteenth-century— in a complex interrelation with other ...
In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of ...
The English poet and dramatist Thomas Lovell Beddoes travelled to Germany in 1825 to study medicine ...
This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by draw...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English."Dec...