Reading human nature [electronic resource] : literary Darwinism in theory and practice / Joseph Carroll.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 352 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438435244
- 143843524X
- 809/.9336 22
- PN55 .C375 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: Adaptationist literary theory -- 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 -- 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 -- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities.
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