Dead from the waist down
Subtitle: scholars and scholarship in literature and the popular imagination
By: A.D. Nuttall.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.; Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters -- Scholars.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880.; Pattison, Mark, 1813-1884.; Learning and scholarship -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Classicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Learning and scholarship in literature.; Scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Scholars in literature.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : desiccation and descent; title: Browning's confusion; title: Mr. Casaubon in Middlemarch; title: Mark Pattison; title: Isaac Casaubon : the real thing; title: Conclusion : the other sexuality and the morality of scholarship.