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UNINA9910810389303321 |
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Autore |
Carroll Joseph <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Literary Darwinism : evolution, human nature, and literature / / Joseph Carroll |
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New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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0-203-60640-X |
1-280-05130-2 |
1-135-87893-5 |
0-203-50527-1 |
1-135-87894-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Evolution (Biology) in literature |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Literature and science - Great Britain |
Social Darwinism in literature |
Human beings in literature |
Adaptation (Biology) |
Nature in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape; 1. The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World; 2. Biology and Poststructuralism; 3. ""Theory,"" Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism; 4. Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis's Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities; 5. Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review of Books by Alexander Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark Turner |
6. Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature7. Wilson's |
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Consilience and Literary Study; 8. Ecocriticism, Cognitive Ethology, and the Environments of Victorian Fiction; Part 2 Adaptationist Literary Studies: Theory and Practical Criticism; 1. The Deep Structure of Literary Representations; 2. Universals in Literary Study; 3. Human Universals and Literary Meaning: A Sociobiological Critique of Pride and Prejudice, Villette, O Pioneers!, Anna of the Five Towns, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 4. Organism, Environment, and Literature |
5. Adaptationist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten's Dance of the Tiger, AuePs The Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding's The Inheritors6. Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice; Part 3 Darwin and Darwinism; 1. The Origin of Charles Darwin: A Review of Three Darwin Biographies; 2. Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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