Literary Darwinism Evolution Human Nature and Literature 1st Edition by Joseph Carroll ISBN 978-0415970136 041597013X

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ISBN 10:   041597013X

ISBN 13:  978-0415970136

Author:  Joseph Carroll 

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to the field, situate the field as a whole in relation to historical trends and contemporary schools, provide Darwinist readings of major literary texts such as Pride and Prejudice and Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and analyze literary Darwinism in relation to the affiliated fields of evolutionary metaphysics, cognitive rhetoric, and ecocriticism. Collecting the essays in a single volume will provide a central point of reference for scholars interested in consulting what the foremost practitioner ( New York Times ) of Darwinian literary criticism has to say about his field.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape
The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World

Biology and Poststructuralism

Theory, Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism

Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis’s Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review of Books by Alexander Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark Turner

Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature

Wilson’s Consilience and Literary Study

Ecocriticism, Cognitive Ethology, and the Environments of Victorian Fiction

Part 2: Adaptionist Literary Studies: Theory and Practical Criticism
The Deep Structure of Literary Representations

Universals in Literary Study

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

Organism, Environment, and Literature

Adaptionist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten’s Dance of the Tiger, Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding’s The Inheritors

Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice

Part 3: Darwin and Darwinism
The Origin of Charles Darwin: A Review of Three Darwin Biographies

Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould

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