Literary Darwinism : Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (Hardcover)

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