Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination

by A.D. Nuttall

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At the end of the 16th century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the 19th century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, dead from the waist down, as Browning so wickedly put it. In this study, a literary critic explores the various ways we have thought about scholars and scholarship through the ages. classical scholar Isaac Casaubon who lived from 1559 to 1614; Mark Pattison, 19th-century rector...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300098405

ISBN13:9780300098402

Release Date:October 2003

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods

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