03846nam 22007213u 450 991081038930332120240405105655.00-203-60640-X1-280-05130-21-135-87893-50-203-50527-11-135-87894-3(CKB)2670000000491231(EBL)183014(OCoLC)56544385(MiAaPQ)EBC183014(EXLCZ)99267000000049123120131216d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterary Darwinism[electronic resource] Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature1st ed.Hoboken Taylor and Francis20131 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-97013-X 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 Turner6. Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature7. Wilson's 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 Literature5. 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; IndexFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Darwin, CharlesEnglish fiction - 19th century - History and criticismEnglish fiction - 20th century - History and criticismEnglish fictionEvolution (Biology) in literatureEvolution (Biology) in literatureHuman beings in literatureNature in literatureSocial Darwinism in literatureTheory, etcDarwin, Charles.English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism.English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism.English fiction.Evolution (Biology) in literature.Evolution (Biology) in literature.Human beings in literature.Nature in literature.Social Darwinism in literature.Theory, etc.823.80936823/.80936Carroll Joseph610221AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910810389303321Literary Darwinism3963675UNINA