Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6808
Title: Sickly Scholars and Healthy Novels: The Classical Scholar in Victorian Fiction
Contributor(s): Hale, Elizabeth  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s12138-010-0185-4
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6808
Abstract: This paper argues that major nineteenth-century British novelists promote the novel as the dominant national literary form, in direct competition with classical forms, such as the epic. Because of this agenda, some novelists castrate, cripple, or dehumanize the figure of the scholar of antiquity, as a way of symbolically rejecting ancient genres. The primary focus is on two novels of faith and doubt by women novelists: George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' (1872-3), and Mary Augusta Ward's 'Robert Elsmere' (1888), novels which make great capital out of presenting and taming sickly, deathly, impotent, and sinister classicists.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 17(2), p. 219-243
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1874-6292
1073-0508
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
200503 British and Irish Literature
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
950203 Languages and Literature
950504 Understanding Europes Past
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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