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Dead from the waist down : scholars and scholarship in literature and the popular imagination

By the 19th century, scholars were perceived as dusty and dried up. In this study, A.D. Nuttall focuses on three people - two real and one fictitious - and explores the various ways we have thought about scholars and scholarship through the ages.
Print Book, English, 2003
Yale University Press, New Haven (Conn.), 2003