Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated ind[...]

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."
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Takes a thematic approach to Judith Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, this study develops Butler's theory of the political through an exploration of her politics of troubling given categories and approaches.[...]

Samuel Butler är en av den engelska litteraturens mest klarsynta författare. Med sin skarpa blick för mänskliga svagheter och sin uppstudsiga misstro mot alla så kallade auktoriteter var han en frisk fläkt i det senviktorianska England. Mest personlig och underhållande är han i sina anteckni[...]