Darwin and Faulkner's Novels

Evolution and Southern Fiction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-37237-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Displaying a wide range of knowledge and interpretive skill, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness and charting the manner in which Faulkner learned and applied his evolutionary concepts, this book unsettles staid interpretations of the Falknerian canon and overturns habitual judgments as to the value of his later novels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wainwright, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Looking Across the Atlantic Hand in Hand with the Old Gentleman The Complex Temple of Sexual Politics Pangenesis and Southern Thought From Race to Ecology Philosophical Frontiers The Enemy Within Self-interest, Cooperation, and Beyond

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL WAINWRIGHT is Lecturer in American Literature and Modernism at University of Lancaster, UK.