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Erewhon Revisited: A Classic Victorian Satire of Belief, Authority, and Social Myth
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206160
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Erewhon Revisited is Samuel Butler's sharp satirical sequel to Erewhon, returning to the strange inverted society that made his earlier novel a landmark of Victorian social criticism. Published in 1901, the book follows the consequences of the original traveller's escape from Erewhon and the elaborate religious myth that has grown up around him. What began as a speculative journey into an imaginary country becomes, in Butler's hands, a pointed comic examination of belief, authority, institutional self-preservation, and the ways societies convert inconvenient facts into comforting doctrine.
Narrated with Butler's characteristic irony and intellectual bite, Erewhon Revisited deepens the satire of its predecessor while standing as a work of philosophical fiction, comic invention, and anti-dogmatic social commentary. Its fictional land allows Butler to examine religion, respectability, progress, and public myth-making at a safe imaginative distance, yet the targets remain unmistakably close to home. For readers of Victorian satire, classic speculative fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, philosophical fiction, and nineteenth-century social criticism, Erewhon Revisited remains a distinctive and provocative continuation of Butler's most famous imaginative world.
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