Saunders American Classics

Evolutionary Perspectives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-61811-592-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Judith P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsIntroduction
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 Thoreau’s 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.