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Author: James G. Paradis Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802097456 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 441
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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.
Author: James G. Paradis Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802097456 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 441
Book Description
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.
Author: Samuel Butler Publisher: LA CASE Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 712
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The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
Author: David Gillott Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351550187 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 209
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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.
Author: James G. Paradis
Author: James G. Paradis
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Author: David Gillott