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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461522403321

Autore

Carroll Joseph <1949->

Titolo

Reading human nature [[electronic resource] ] : literary Darwinism in theory and practice / / Joseph Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3524-X

1-4416-8886-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9336

Soggetti

Literature and science

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Evolution (Biology) in literature

Human behavior - Philosophy

Evolutionary psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.