LEADER 05183nam 2200685 450 001 9910456804603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8905-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442689053 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019345 035 $a(EBL)3268336 035 $a(OCoLC)923772457 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478779 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478779 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10435243 035 $a(PQKB)10642249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430851 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672666 035 $a(DE-B1597)465354 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939104 035 $a(OCoLC)944176620 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442689053 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258322 035 $a(OCoLC)958516548 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019345 100 $a20160923h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSamuel Butler, Victorian against the grain $ea critical overview /$fedited by James G. Paradis 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (436 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9745-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction / $rParadis, James G. -- $tPART ONE: The New Zealand and Early London Years, 1860-73 -- $t1. From Canterbury Settlement to Erewhon: Butler and Antipodean Counterpoint / $rRobinson, Roger -- $t2. Butler, Memory, and the Future / $rBeer, Gillian -- $t3. The Ironies of Biblical Criticism: From Samuel Butler's 'Resurrection' Essay and The Fair Haven to Erewhon Revisited / $rShaffer, Elinor -- $tPART TWO: The Evolutionist, 1874-86 -- $t4. 'The written symbol extends infinitely': Samuel Butler and the Writing of Evolutionary Theory / $rAmigoni, David -- $t5. 'A Conspiracy of One': Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization / $rLightman, Bernard -- $t6. Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of All Flesh / $rShuttleworth, Sally -- $t7. Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic / $rSussman, Herbert -- $t8. Mind Matters: Butler and Late Nineteenth-Century Psychology / $rParkin-Gounelas, Ruth -- $tPART THREE: On the Margin, 1887-1902 -- $t9. Samuel Butler, Local Identity, and the Periodizing of Northern Italian Art: The Travel Writer-Painter's View of Art History / $rZdanski, Clarice -- $t10. Samuel Butler's Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past / $rEdwards, Elizabeth -- $t11. Butler's Narcissus: 'A Tame Oratorio' / $rHarris, Ellen T. -- $t12. Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman: The Reception of The Authoress of the Odyssey / $rBeard, Mary -- $t13. Butler after Butler: The Man of Letters as Outsider / $rParadis, James G. -- $tChronology -- $tSelect Bibliography -- $tContributors -- $tCredits -- $tIndex 330 $aSamuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing.Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. 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. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles - as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer. 606 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aEssayists$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aCritics$zGreat Britain$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aEssayists 615 0$aCritics 676 $a828/.809 700 $aParadis$b James G., $0896933 702 $aParadis$b James G.$f1942- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456804603321 996 $aSamuel Butler, Victorian against the grain$92004154 997 $aUNINA