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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the grain : a critical overview / edited by James G. Paradis.

LIBRA PR4349.B7 Z915 2007
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Paradis, James G., 1942-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902--Criticism and interpretation.
Butler, Samuel.
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
Novelists, English.
Essayists.
Criticism and interpretation.
Great Britain.
Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
Critics.
Essayists--Great Britain--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xii, 423 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Contents:
Part 1 The New Zealand and Early London Years, 1860-73
1 From Canterbury Settlement to Erewhon: Butler and Antipodean Counterpoint / Roger Robinson 21
2 Butler, Memory, and the Future / Gillian Beer 45
3 The Ironies of Biblical Criticism: From Samuel Butler's 'Resurrection' Essay and The Fair Haven to Erewhon Revisited / Elinor Shaffer 58
Part 2 The Evolutionist, 1874-86
4 'The written symbol extends infinitely': Samuel Butler and the Writing of Evolutionary Theory / David Amigoni 91
5 'A Conspiracy of One': Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization / Bernard Lightman 113
6 Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of All Flesh / Sally Shuttleworth 143
7 Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic / Herbert Sussman 170
8 Mind Matters: Butler and Late Nineteenth-Century Psychology / Ruth Parkin-Gounelas 195
Part 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 223
10 Samuel Butler's Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past / Elizabeth Edwards 251
11 Butler's Narcissus: 'A Tame Oratorio' / Ellen T. Harris 287
12 Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman: The Reception of The Authoress of the Odyssey / Mary Beard 317
13 Butler after Butler: The Man of Letters as Outsider / James G. Paradis 343.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780802097453
0802097456
OCLC:
159897542

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