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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the grain : a critical overview /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paradis, James G., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James G. Paradis
  • pt. 1. New Zealand and Early London Years, 1860-73
  • 1. From Canterbury Settlement to Erewhon: Butler and Antipodean Counterpoint / Roger Robinson
  • 2. Butler, Memory, and the Future / Gillian Beer
  • 3. Ironies of Biblical Criticism: From Samuel Butler's 'Resurrection' Essay and The Fair Haven to Erewhon Revisited / Elinor Shaffer
  • pt. 2. Evolutionist, 1874-86
  • 4. 'The written symbol extends infinitely': Samuel Butler and the Writing of Evolutionary Theory / David Amigoni
  • 5. 'A Conspiracy of One': Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization / Bernard Lightman
  • 6. Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of All Flesh / Sally Shuttleworth
  • 7. Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic / Herbert Sussman
  • 8. Mind Matters: Butler and Late Nineteenth-Century Psychology / Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
  • pt. 3. 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 / Clarice Zdanski
  • 10. Samuel Butler's Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past / Elizabeth Edwards
  • 11. Butler's Narcissus: 'A Tame Oratorio' / Ellen T. Harris
  • 12. Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman: The Reception of The Authoress of the Odyssey / Mary Beard
  • 13. Butler after Butler: The Man of Letters as Outsider / James G. Paradis.