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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Yale Univ Pr
Publication date
October 1, 2003
Pages
240
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780300098402
ISBN-10
0300098405
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.88 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$30.00
Other format details
university press
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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. 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, 19th-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 imperilled in our own culture. Nuttall concludes with a meditation on morality, sexuality and the true virtues of scholarship.
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Hardcover
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from Yale Univ Pr (October 1, 2003)
9780300098402 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $30.00
About: At the end of the 16th century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy.
About: At the end of the 16th century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy.
Paperback
from Yale Univ Pr (December 9, 2011)
9780300185263 | details & prices | 228 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $30.00
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