Samuel Butler against the Professionals

In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin''s character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler''s ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler''s work and shows how Lamarckian id...