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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954965403321

Autore

Wainwright Michael

Titolo

Darwin and Faulkner's Novels : Evolution and Southern Fiction / / by M. Wainwright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

9786611976897

9781281976895

128197689X

9780230612051

0230612059

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

813/.509

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Fiction

North American Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Looking across the Atlantic -- Hand in hand with the old gentleman -- The complex temple of sexual politics -- Pangenesis and southern thought -- From race to ecology -- Philosophical frontiers -- The enemy within -- Self-interest, cooperation, and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

Displaying a wide range of knowledge and interpretive skill, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness and charting the manner in which Faulkner learned and applied his evolutionary concepts, this book unsettles staid interpretations of the Falknerian canon and overturns habitual judgments as to the value of his later novels.