Contents
A Companion to the Studies of
Samuel Butler��s The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Contents Introduction Chapter OneThe Way of All Flesh (1903):
a summary
Chapter TwoThe Way of All Flesh as a Lamarckian
novel of inheritance 2.1Lamarckian essence in the novel: change,
will and environment 2.2Heredity: the oneness of personality between
parents and offspring 2.2.1Heredity in The Way of All Flesh 2.2.2Ernest��s parents—Theobald and Christina 2.2.3Ernest��s childhood in a God��fearing family 2.2.4Alethea and Overton
Chapter ThreeAinsi va toute evolution—Butler��s utilitarian taste 3.1Butler and God 3.2Vice and virtue 3.3Butler and utilitarianism 3.4Butler and money
Chapter FourSelf��help and free��will: the reconstruction
of personal identity 4.1Unconscious Memory and Cunning as two limbs of
man—Ernest��s growth 4.2Luck or cunning? Butler��s ideal gentleman 4.3“Sensible teaching” in The Way of All Flesh 4.3.1On childhood 4.3.2About Dr. Skinner��s school at Roughborough 4.3.3Ernest��s Cambridge years 4.4Samuel Butler on education Conclusion Bibliography Selected index and glossary of names Appendix Acknowledgements