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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Samuel Butler Newsletter
Author: Samuel Butler Newsletter
Author: The Samuel Butler Society Newsletter
Author: Samuel Butler SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Author: David GillottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351550187
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.
Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain
Author: James G. ParadisPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing. Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles - as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer.
Bulletin
Author: London Calling
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Book News
Author: Department of State News Letter
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
News from Nowhere
Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description