2003, ISBN: 0300098405

[EAN: 9780300098402], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Yale University Press. 01.10.2003.], Jacket, XII, 228 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjäh… More...

[EAN: 9780300098402], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Yale University Press. 01.10.2003.], Jacket, XII, 228 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, both dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they had become sexually impotent and dried-up figures of ridicule, "dead from the waist down," as Robert 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. Why is it, Nuttall asks, that in the nineteenth century the life of the mind becomes equated with a kind of death in life? -- 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, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in the nineteenth century; 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 what is still the best book on Isaac Casaubon. -- Nuttall provides a provocative interpretation of Middlemarch, arguing that it contains an anti-feminist thesis ("This is a young woman with highfalutin ideas who really needs some strong sex from a man to straighten her out.’’) coexisting with a feminist thesis ("The life of the mind, unsuccessfully essayed by Air. Casaubon, is tragically withheld from his wife, Dorothea."). He shows that at nearly the same trme Middlemarch was being written, Mark Pattison was recording in his Memoirs his own introverted intellectual life and self-lacerating depression. Pattison’s book on Isaac Casaubon leads Nuttall back to this earlier figure, a great and fulfilled scholar who personifies the ideal of detailed, unspectacular truthtelling, an ideal often imperiled in our own culture, remarks Nuttall. He ends the book with a meditation on morality, sexuality, and the virtues of scholarship. ISBN 9780300098402 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 455 14,6 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm, Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket., Books<

2001, ISBN: 9780300098402

XII, 228 Seiten / p. 14,6 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm, Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und … More...

XII, 228 Seiten / p. 14,6 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm, Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, both dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they had become sexually impotent and dried-up figures of ridicule, dead from the waist down, as Robert 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. Why is it, Nuttall asks, that in the nineteenth century the life of the mind becomes equated with a kind of death in life? -- 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, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in the nineteenth century; and Mr. Casaubon in George Eliots Middlemarch. The three are intricately related, for Pattison was seen by many as the model for Eliots Mr. Casaubon, and he was also the author of what is still the best book on Isaac Casaubon. -- Nuttall provides a provocative interpretation of Middlemarch, arguing that it contains an anti-feminist thesis ("This is a young woman with highfalutin ideas who really needs some strong sex from a man to straighten her out.) coexisting with a feminist thesis ("The life of the mind, unsuccessfully essayed by Air. Casaubon, is tragically withheld from his wife, Dorothea.). He shows that at nearly the same trme Middlemarch was being written, Mark Pattison was recording in his Memoirs his own introverted intellectual life and self-lacerating depression. Pattisons book on Isaac Casaubon leads Nuttall back to this earlier figure, a great and fulfilled scholar who personifies the ideal of detailed, unspectacular truthtelling, an ideal often imperiled in our own culture, remarks Nuttall. He ends the book with a meditation on morality, sexuality, and the virtues of scholarship. ISBN 9780300098402 Versand D: 4,50 EUR , [PU:Yale University Press.,]<