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The Pragmatism of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Samuel Butler, English Victorian man of letters, is best known for his work on evolution and his three didactic and often satirical narratives: Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon Revisited. In his writing Butler developed a philosophy of pragmatism, based on a belief in evolutionary …
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'Erewhon; Or, Over the Range' by Samuel Butler: A Scholarly Edition
This thesis comprises a scholarly edition of Samuel Butler’s satirical novel 'Erewhon; or, Over the Range' (1872). All prior editions and reprints of 'Erewhon' have positioned it squarely within the traditions of Menippean satire and British intellectual culture; this edition situates 'Erewhon' in …
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“There doth great Handel live”: Music in the life and works of Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler’s Way of All Flesh as a Sociological Novel
<p>To scholars of Victorian literature, Samuel Butler has always been a rebel who strikes out at society with wide-ranging criticism. After years of studying subjects as varied as music, art, biology, literature, and theology, Butler felt (like many Victorian writers) that he could make valuable …
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From erewhon to nowhere: the impact of science on late-Victorian science fiction
… 15). The writers considered in this thesis, Samuel Butler, Bulwer Lytton, Richard Jefferies, and of course, HG Wells, began predicating an ostensibly realist mode of fiction on the new relationships and identities forged between humanity and Victorian scientific notions of progress. Science …