Judith P Saunders

American Classics

Evolutionary Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues¿courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example¿in the context of both physical and social environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117656
• ISBN-10: 1618117653
• Artikelnr.: 52906709

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