Volume 50, Number 19 · December 4, 2003
The Scholar in the Bedroom
By John Gross
Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination
by A.D. Nuttall
Yale University Press, 228 pp., $26.00
Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is one of the greatest names in the history of classical scholarship. Edward Casaubon is a character in Middlemarch—the dry stick whom Dorothea Brooke misguidedly marries. Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, was a leading Victorian classicist. It is widely assumed that George Eliot had him in mind when she created Edward Casaubon, not least because he was Isaac Casaubon's biographer.
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