Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler
| Author | : Henry Festing Jones |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : Evolution |
| ISBN | : |
The Way of All Flesh
| Author | : Samuel Butler |
| Publisher | : LA CASE Books |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
The Note-books of Samuel Butler ...
| Author | : Samuel Butler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1917 |
| Genre | : Satire, English |
| ISBN | : |
An Historical and Critical Review of Samuel Butler's Literary Works
| Author | : Willem Gerard Bekker |
| Publisher | : Ardent Media |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1925 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Darwin and the Novelists
| Author | : George Levine |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0226475743 |
The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
Charles and Emma
| Author | : Deborah Heiligman |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2009-01-06 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1429934956 |
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
