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Literary Darwinism [[electronic resource] ] : Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature
| Literary Darwinism [[electronic resource] ] : Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature |
| Autore | Carroll Joseph |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina |
823.80936
823/.80936 |
| Soggetto topico |
Darwin, Charles
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction Evolution (Biology) in literature Human beings in literature Nature in literature Social Darwinism in literature Theory, etc |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-135-87894-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463160703321 |
Carroll Joseph
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| Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Darwinism [[electronic resource] ] : Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature
| Literary Darwinism [[electronic resource] ] : Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature |
| Autore | Carroll Joseph |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina |
823.80936
823/.80936 |
| Soggetto topico |
Darwin, Charles
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction Evolution (Biology) in literature Human beings in literature Nature in literature Social Darwinism in literature Theory, etc |
| ISBN |
0-203-60640-X
1-280-05130-2 1-135-87893-5 0-203-50527-1 1-135-87894-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787781003321 |
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Carroll Joseph
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| Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Darwinism : evolution, human nature, and literature / / Joseph Carroll
| Literary Darwinism : evolution, human nature, and literature / / Joseph Carroll |
| Autore | Carroll Joseph <1949-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.80936 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| ISBN |
0-203-60640-X
1-280-05130-2 1-135-87893-5 0-203-50527-1 1-135-87894-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810389303321 |
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Carroll Joseph <1949->
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| New York, : Routledge, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor
| The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Jesse O. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.80936 |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Smog in literature Ecology in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8139-3794-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House -- Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog -- Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history -- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body -- The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels -- The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis -- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection -- Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history -- Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466159803321 |
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Taylor Jesse O.
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| Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor
| The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Jesse O. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.80936 |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Smog in literature Ecology in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8139-3794-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House -- Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog -- Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history -- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body -- The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels -- The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis -- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection -- Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history -- Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798020003321 |
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Taylor Jesse O.
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| Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor
| The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Jesse O. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.80936 |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Smog in literature Ecology in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8139-3794-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House -- Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog -- Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history -- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body -- The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels -- The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis -- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection -- Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history -- Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807732903321 |
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Taylor Jesse O.
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| Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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