Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature,

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to the field, situate the field as a whole in relation to historical trends and contemporary schools, provide Darwinist readings of major literary texts such as Pride and Prejudice and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and analyze literary Darwinism in relation to the affiliated fields of evolutionary metaphysics, cognitive rhetoric, and ecocriticism. Collecting the essays in a single volume will provide a central point of reference for scholars interested in consulting what the "foremost practitioner" (New York Times) of Darwinian literary criticism has to say about his field.

Introduction

vii

Acknowledgments

xxvii

Part 1: Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape

1 The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World

3

(12)

2 Biology and Poststructuralism

15

(14)

3 "Theory," Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism

29

(12)

4 Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis's Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

41

(4)

5 Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review of Books by Alexander Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark Turner

45

(18)

6 Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature

63

(6)

7 Wilson's Consilience and Literary Study

69

(16)

8 Ecocriticism, Cognitive Ethology, and the Environments of Victorian Fiction

85

(18)

Part 2: Adaptationist Literary Studies: Theory and Practical Criticism

1 The Deep Structure of Literary Representations

103

(14)

2 Universals in Literary Study

117

(12)

3 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'Urbervilles

129

(18)

4 Organism, Environment, and Literature

147

(16)

5 Adaptationist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten's Dance of the Tiger, Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding's The Inheritors

163

(24)

6 Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice

187

(32)

Part 3: Darwin and Darwinism

1 The Origin of Charles Darwin: A Review of Three Darwin Biographies

219

(8)

2 Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould

227

(20)

References

247

(18)

Index

265

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