Joseph Carroll

Literary Darwinism

Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780415970136
• ISBN-10: 041597013X
• Artikelnr.: 22478849

Autorenporträt

Joseph Carroll is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has published books on Matthew Arnold and Wallace Stevens. In Evolution and Literary Theory (1995) and in his subsequent writing, he has spearheaded the movement to integrate literary study with Darwinian psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Literary Darwinism ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments Part I: Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape 1 The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World 2 Biology and Poststructuralism 3 Theory
Anit-Theory
and Empirical Criticism4 Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis's Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities5 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 Study8 Ecocriticism
Cognitive Ethology
and the Environments of Victorian FictionPart 2: Adaptionist Literary Studies: Theory and Practical Criticism1 The Deep Structure of Literary Representations2 Universals in Literary Study3 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'Ubervilles4 Organism
Environment
and Literature5 Adaptionist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten's Dance of the Tiger
Auel's 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 PrejudicePart 3: Darwin and Darwinism1 The Origin of Charles Darwin: A Review of Three Darwin Biographies2 Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay GouldReferencesIndex