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

by A.D. Nuttall

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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"