Casaubon
Americannoun
noun
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The irony here checks out: Casaubon, not unlike so many of Franzen’s male characters, is self-righteous, pompous, largely ineffectual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Q. Solemn play: My boyfriend has been reading me the novel Middlemarch out loud, and the character we both find the most compelling is Dr. Casaubon.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020
Explaining Dorothea’s attraction to Casaubon, she writes: “The radiance of her transfigured girlhood fell on the first object that came within its level.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
Reading Kronman’s “Confessions,” I wondered if its author would be like Mr. Casaubon, from “Middlemarch”—a pale, stooped, carrel-dwelling monomaniac who lives entirely in his mind.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2017
Even in his best moments, Mr. Casaubon was never ecstatic.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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