Reading human nature
Subtitle: literary Darwinism in theory and practice
By: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438435237; 9781438435220
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Adaptationist literary theory; title: Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet; title: Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge; title: Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities.