Erewhon And Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
Over the Range
A traveler discovers a secluded nation whose customs invert familiar Victorian norms—disease is treated as crime while criminality is regarded as illness, conventional morality and religion are parodied, and social institutions are skewed to expose hypocrisy. On a later visit he encounters political upheaval and debates about progress, including a provocative essay arguing that machines might evolve consciousness and threaten human freedom, using satire of industrialism, imperialism and moral pretensions to probe the limits and dangers of unchecked “civilization.”
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- Published
- 1872
- Nationality
- English
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 350-450 pages
- Original Language
- English
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