03913nam 2200721Ia 450 991081038930332120200520144314.00-203-60640-X1-280-05130-21-135-87893-50-203-50527-11-135-87894-3(CKB)2670000000491231(EBL)183014(OCoLC)56544385(MiAaPQ)EBC183014(OCoLC)1298602693(FINmELB)ELB155242(EXLCZ)99267000000049123120030806d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterary Darwinism evolution, human nature, and literature /Joseph Carroll1st ed.New York Routledge20041 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-97013-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEvolution (Biology) in literatureEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiterature and scienceGreat BritainSocial Darwinism in literatureHuman beings in literatureAdaptation (Biology)Nature in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Evolution (Biology) in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Literature and scienceSocial Darwinism in literature.Human beings in literature.Adaptation (Biology)Nature in literature.823/.80936Carroll Joseph1949-1685017MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810389303321Literary Darwinism4195172UNINA