Carroll Literary Darwinism

Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-87893-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ILiterary Darwinism

Contents

Introduction

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 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 Literature

7 Wilson's Consilience and Literary Study

8 Ecocriticism, Cognitive Ethology, and the Environments of Victorian Fiction

Part 2: Adaptionist 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'Ubervilles

4 Organism, Environment, and Literature

5 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

6 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.