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Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth- Century Oxford Sabine Chaouche Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford Sabine Chaouche Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford Sabine Chaouche School of Arts Sunway University Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia ISBN 978-3-030-46386-1 ISBN 978-3-030-46387-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46387-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland a cknowledgements Firstly, I would like to warmly thank Professor Jane Humphries cbe for her guidance and care, and my editor Megan Laddusaw for her unwavering support in making of this study a book. I would also like to warmly thank Professor Kevin O’Rourke for his suggestions that have opened up inspiring research perspectives. This work would not have been completed without constructive advice given by Professor Laura Ugolini, Dr Chris Day, Dr Julie Marfany and Dr Christina de Bellaigue. My thanks go to Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah ao, Professor John Bowers qc, Professor Jarlath Ronayne am, Professor Graeme Wilkinson, Dr Liz Miller and Dr Carole Bourne-Taylor for the wonderful visiting scholarship at Brasenose College which enabled me to finalise this study. I particularly would like to thank the Provost of Oriel College Mr Neil Mendoza and Mr Robert Petre, the archivist of the college, who allowed me to take photographs of an album of students in the late Victorian era: this material has been extremely useful for my research and I am very grateful to him for helping me discover this core primary resource. A few class photographs of past Oriel College students can be seen in this book. I would like to thank also the archivists of Oxford colleges for their help in tracking documents: Mr Simon Bailey (the Keeper of the University Archives), Ms Elizabeth Back (University Archives), Dr Robin Darwall- Smith (Magdalen and University College), Ms Elizabeth Boardman (Brasenose College), Mr Andrew Mussell (Lincoln College) and Mr Cliff Davies (Wadham College), and the Faculty of History’s administrators at the University of Oxford. v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Dr Danna R. Messer and Waqas Mirza for their readings and useful comments; Professor Katherine Watson with whom a study day was organised on everyday life in Europe in Oxford; Professor Joel Félix; Professors Peter Heard and Don Bowyer for their support; and Dr Edward Nye. I thank the porters of the lodge at New College for their kindness and cheerfulness that brightened my days when I was studying at Oxford. I thank my family, my good friend Jean-Yves Vialleton for his support along the way and finally, Monique Moreton to whom I owe a great deal. c ontents 1 I ntroduction 1 2 College Life and the Local Economy 35 3 Male Consumption and Students’ Tastes 63 4 Undergraduate Culture and Male Consumer Behaviour 93 5 The Formation of Spending Habits 129 6 Consumer Credit Traps and Student Consumerism 159 7 Excessive Consumption and Insolvency 197 8 An Emerging Anti-Consumerist Culture? 245 9 Conclusion 271 Appendix: Evolution of Law 281 Bibliography 283 vii viii CONTENTS Index of Personalities 311 Index of Tradesmen 315 Index of Students 317 a a bout the uthor Sabine Chaouche is Professor of Cultural History at Sunway University and Associate Dean. She has studied at the University of Oxford and the Sorbonne, and published numerous books on all aspects of theatre history, including L’art du comédien (2001), La philosophie de l’Acteur (2007), La Mise en scène du répertoire à la Comédie-Française (2013), Consuming Female Performers (2015), Masculinité et théâtre (2018) and The Stage and its Creative Processes (2019 and 2020). ix l a ist of bbreviations BC Brasenose College Archives Bodl. Bodleian Library CCP Chancellor’s Court Papers (OUA) Ch.Ch. Christ Church Archives JJC John Johnson Collection OC Oriel College Archives OHC Oxfordshire History Centre OUA Oxford University Archives UC University College Archives Note All the figures and tables included in this study were made by Sabine Chaouche with the exception of Table 8.1 directly reproduced from The Oxford Undergraduate’s Journal, 1867. A glossary of all the terms relating to college life can be found at: https://oac.web.ox.ac.uk/glossary xi
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