Climbing Down a Family Tree: Rejected Fathers in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
At the end of chapter LXVI in The Way of All Flesh (1903) we read: “The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected.” (TWAF 313) The statement hardly leaves any room for doubt that Butler's overall pur...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2014-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/446 |