Erewhon Revisited · Concept
Satire of Institutions
The book satirizes academic, religious, and legal institutions, such as the Colleges of Unreason, the Deformatory for Boys, and the Musical Banks, mocking their absurdities and self-serving nature.
The book satirizes academic, religious, and legal institutions, such as the Colleges of Unreason, the Deformatory for Boys, and the Musical Banks, mocking their absurdities and self-serving nature.
The preface satirizes the predictable pattern of religious institutionalization following a supposed miracle.
The book continues to satirize societal institutions, as Erewhon's society has evolved in unexpected ways.
The absurdity of the Erewhonian legal system and the professors' academic pretensions are satirized through their interactions with my father.
The College of Spiritual Athletics and the advertisements for moral training mock institutionalized religion and self-help fads.
Characters
Chapters
- Author's Preface
- Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son
- III: My Father While Camping Is Accosted by Professors Hanky and Panky
- Signs of the New Order of Things Catch My Father’s Eye on Every Side
- VIII: Yram, Now Mayoress, Gives a Dinner-Party, in the Course of Which She Is Disquieted by What She Learns from Professor Hanky: She Sends for Her Son George and Questions Him
- XII: George Fails to Find My Father, Whereon Yram Cautions the Professors
- A Visit to the Provincial Deformatory at Fairmead
- XIV: My Father Makes the Acquaintance of Mr. Balmy, and Walks with Him Next Day to Sunch’ston
