Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain : : A Critical Overview /

Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain : : A Critical Overview / / James G. Paradis.

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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 fron...

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Paradis, James G.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Paradis, James G.
  • PART ONE: The New Zealand and Early London Years, 1860-73
  • 1. From Canterbury Settlement to Erewhon: Butler and Antipodean Counterpoint / Robinson, Roger
  • 2. Butler, Memory, and the Future / Beer, Gillian
  • 3. The Ironies of Biblical Criticism: From Samuel Butler's 'Resurrection' Essay and The Fair Haven to Erewhon Revisited / Shaffer, Elinor
  • PART TWO: The Evolutionist, 1874-86
  • 4. 'The written symbol extends infinitely': Samuel Butler and the Writing of Evolutionary Theory / Amigoni, David
  • 5. 'A Conspiracy of One': Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization / Lightman, Bernard
  • 6. Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of All Flesh / Shuttleworth, Sally
  • 7. Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic / Sussman, Herbert
  • 8. Mind Matters: Butler and Late Nineteenth-Century Psychology / Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth
  • PART THREE: On the Margin, 1887-1902
  • 9. Samuel Butler, Local Identity, and the Periodizing of Northern Italian Art: The Travel Writer-Painter's View of Art History / Zdanski, Clarice
  • 10. Samuel Butler's Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past / Edwards, Elizabeth
  • 11. Butler's Narcissus: 'A Tame Oratorio' / Harris, Ellen T.
  • 12. Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman: The Reception of The Authoress of the Odyssey / Beard, Mary
  • 13. Butler after Butler: The Man of Letters as Outsider / Paradis, James G.
  • Chronology
  • Select Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Credits
  • Index

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