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082 0 4 _a828.809
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJones, Joseph
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Cradle of Erewhon :
_bSamuel Butler in New Zealand /
_cJoseph Jones.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c1959
300 _a1 online resource (252 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPhotographs --
_tPart I: Mesopotamian Squatter --
_tYOUNG BUTLER: Emigration or Frustration? --
_tMESOPOTAMIA --
_tCHRISTCHURCH --
_tPart II: Trails into Erewhon --
_tTHE PRESS --
_tEREWHON: GEOGRAPHY --
_tEREWHON: GEOGRAPHY --
_tTHE PROGENY OF EREWHON --
_tDocumentary Notes on the Text --
_tAPPENDICES --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed exile came Erewhon, one of the world's masterpieces of satire, which contained the germ of Butler's intellectual output for the next twenty years. The Cradle of Erewhon is an examination and interpretation of the special ways in which these few crucial years affected Butler's life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. It shows us Butler the sheep farmer, explorer, and mountain climber, as well as Butler the newcomer to "The Colonies," accepting—and accepted by—his intellectual peers in the unpioneerlike little city of Christchurch, sharpening and disciplining his mind through his controversial contributions to the Christchurch Press. But more importantly, the book suggests the depth to which New Zealand penetrated the man and reveals new facets of influence hitherto unnoticed in Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. The Southern Alps ("Oh, Wonderful! Wonderful! so lonely and so solemn"), the perilous rivers and passes, the character and customs of the Maoris—all these blend to afford new insights into a complex book. Butler was not the first to create an imaginary world as asylum from the harsh realities of this one (Vergil did the same in the Eclogues), nor was he the first, even in his own time, to protest against the machine as the enslaver of man, but his became the clearest and the freshest voice. On the biographical side, The Cradle of Erewhon offers new evidence for reappraising the man who for so long has been a psychological and literary puzzle. Why, for instance, did he repudiate his first-born book, A First Year in Canterbury Settlement? And why, once safely away from the entanglements of London, did he voluntarily return to them? Answers to these and other Butlerian riddles are suggested in the engrossing account of the satirist's sojourn in the Antipodes.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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