Hardcover, 279 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1981 by University of Delaware Press.
Erewhon
Or, over the Range
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Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.
Subjects
- 19th century fiction
- Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
- Satire
- 19th Century English Novel And Short Story
- Fiction - General
- Fiction
- Utopian fiction
- General
- Utopias