Author: Ben Joseph Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious thought
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A Critique of the Religious Philosophy of Samuel Butler as Expressed in His Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
Author: Ben Joseph Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious thought
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious thought
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Samuel Butler: Critic and Philosopher...
Author: Petronella Jacoba de Lange
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Critical and Annotated Edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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The earnest atheist
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Author: David Gillott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351550179
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351550179
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Late Victorian-Edwardian
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Samuel Butler - The Fair Haven
Author: SAMUEL BUTLER.
Publisher: Word to the Wise
ISBN: 9781787809741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Samuel Butler was born on 4th December 1835 at the village rectory in Langar, Nottinghamshire. His relationship with his parents, especially his father, was largely antagonistic. His education began at home and included frequent beatings, as was all too common at the time. Under his parents' influence, he was set to follow his father into the priesthood. He was schooled at Shrewsbury and then St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first in Classics in 1858. After Cambridge he went to live in a low-income parish in London 1858-59 as preparation for his ordination into the Anglican clergy; there he discovered that baptism made no apparent difference to the morals and behaviour of his new peers. He began to question his faith. Correspondence with his father about the issue failed to set his mind at peace, inciting instead his father's wrath. As a result, the young Butler emigrated in September 1859 to New Zealand. He was determined to change his life. He wrote of his arrival and life as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station in 'A First Year in Canterbury Settlement' (1863). After a few years he sold his farm and made a handsome profit. But the chief achievement of these years were the drafts and source material for much of his masterpiece 'Erewhon'. Butler returned to England in 1864, settling in rooms in Clifford's Inn, near Fleet Street, where he would live for the rest of his life. In 1872, he published his Utopian novel 'Erewhon' which made him a well-known figure. He wrote a number of other books, including a moderately successful sequel, 'Erewhon Revisited' before his masterpiece and semi-autobiographical novel 'The Way of All Flesh' appeared after his death. Butler thought its tone of satirical attack on Victorian morality too contentious to publish during his life time and thereby shied away from further potential problems. Samuel Butler died aged 66 on 18th June 1902 at a nursing home in St John's Wood Road, London. He was cremated at Woking Crematorium, and accounts say his ashes were either dispersed or buried in an unmarked grave.
Publisher: Word to the Wise
ISBN: 9781787809741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Samuel Butler was born on 4th December 1835 at the village rectory in Langar, Nottinghamshire. His relationship with his parents, especially his father, was largely antagonistic. His education began at home and included frequent beatings, as was all too common at the time. Under his parents' influence, he was set to follow his father into the priesthood. He was schooled at Shrewsbury and then St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first in Classics in 1858. After Cambridge he went to live in a low-income parish in London 1858-59 as preparation for his ordination into the Anglican clergy; there he discovered that baptism made no apparent difference to the morals and behaviour of his new peers. He began to question his faith. Correspondence with his father about the issue failed to set his mind at peace, inciting instead his father's wrath. As a result, the young Butler emigrated in September 1859 to New Zealand. He was determined to change his life. He wrote of his arrival and life as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station in 'A First Year in Canterbury Settlement' (1863). After a few years he sold his farm and made a handsome profit. But the chief achievement of these years were the drafts and source material for much of his masterpiece 'Erewhon'. Butler returned to England in 1864, settling in rooms in Clifford's Inn, near Fleet Street, where he would live for the rest of his life. In 1872, he published his Utopian novel 'Erewhon' which made him a well-known figure. He wrote a number of other books, including a moderately successful sequel, 'Erewhon Revisited' before his masterpiece and semi-autobiographical novel 'The Way of All Flesh' appeared after his death. Butler thought its tone of satirical attack on Victorian morality too contentious to publish during his life time and thereby shied away from further potential problems. Samuel Butler died aged 66 on 18th June 1902 at a nursing home in St John's Wood Road, London. He was cremated at Woking Crematorium, and accounts say his ashes were either dispersed or buried in an unmarked grave.
Erewhon
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A satirical account of a traveller's discovery of Erewhon, land of paradoxical laws and frightening contradictions, from which he eventually makes his escape in a balloon.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A satirical account of a traveller's discovery of Erewhon, land of paradoxical laws and frightening contradictions, from which he eventually makes his escape in a balloon.
Samuel Butler on the Resurrection
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: Colin Smythe
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The first reprint of Butler's earliest and most daring work. Herein, the renowned English philosopher's critical analysis of the Resurrection story that caused considerable controversy at the time of its first publication because most of his readers
Publisher: Colin Smythe
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The first reprint of Butler's earliest and most daring work. Herein, the renowned English philosopher's critical analysis of the Resurrection story that caused considerable controversy at the time of its first publication because most of his readers
A Study of Samuel Butler
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Critics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Critics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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