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Reading human nature : literary Darwinism in theory and practice / Joseph Carroll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Joseph, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and science.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Evolution (Biology) in literature.
- Human behavior--Philosophy.
- Human behavior.
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.
- Contents:
- Part one: Adaptationist literary theory
- Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet
- Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge
- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438435244
- 143843524X
- 9781441688866
- 1441688862
- OCLC:
- 710992973
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