Judith P Saunders

American Classics

Evolutionary Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary framework to pose new questions about long admired, much discussed texts, the collection as a whole provides an introduction to Darwinian literary critical methodology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117663
• ISBN-10: 1618117661
• Artikelnr.: 52904768

Autorenporträt

Judith P. Saunders is Professor of English at Marist College in New York State. She is the author of The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Border Lines  and Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Story of a Successful Social Animal 2. Nepotism in Hawthorne
s
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
3. Biophilia in Thoreaüs Walden 4. Bateman
s Principle in
Song of Myself
: Whitman Celebrates Male Ardency 5. Maladaptive Behavior and Auctorial Design: Huck Finn
s Pap 6. Hell
s Fury: Female Mate-Retention Strategies in Wharton
s
Pomegranate Seed and Ethan Frome 7. Male Reproductive Strategies in Sherwood Anderson
s
The Untold Lie
8. The Great Gatsby: An Unusual Case of Mate-Poaching 9. Female Sexual Strategies in the Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay 10. Philosophy and Fitness: Hemingway
s
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
and  The Sun Also Rises 11. Paternal Confidence in Zora Neale Hurston
s
The Gilded Six-Bits
12. The Role of the Arts in Male Courtship Display: Billy Collins
s
Serenade
Glossary Bibliography Index