Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination
ISBN-13:
9780300098402
ISBN-10:
0300098405
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
A. D. Nuttall
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
228 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780300098402
ISBN-10:
0300098405
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
A. D. Nuttall
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
228 pages
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Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination (ISBN-13: 9780300098402 and ISBN-10: 0300098405), written by authors
A. D. Nuttall, was published by Yale University Press in 2003.
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At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, "dead from the waist down," as Browning so wickedly put it. In this erudite and entertaining book, a renowned literary critic explores the various ways we have thought about scholars and scholarship through the ages. A.D. Nuttall focuses on three people, two real and one fictitious: the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon who lived from 1559 to 1614; Mark Pattison, nineteenth-century rector at Oxford; and Mr. Casaubon in George Eliot's Middlemarch. The three are intricately related, for Pattison was seen by many as the model for Eliot's Mr. Casaubon, and he was also the author of the best book on Isaac Casaubon. Nuttall offers a penetrating interpretation of Middlemarch and then describes how Pattison recorded his own introverted intellectual life and self-lacerating depression. He presents Isaac Casaubon, on the other hand, as a fulfilled scholar who personifies the ideal of detailed, unspectacular truth-telling, often imperiled in our own culture. Nuttall concludes with a meditation on morality, sexuality, and the true virtues of scholarship.
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