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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the grain : a critical overview / edited by James G. Paradis.
LIBRA PR4349.B7 Z915 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- 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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