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Toward a sociobiological hermeneutic
Darwinian essays on literature
Abstract
This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.
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Introduction
darwinism after Darwin
pp.1-24
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391819_1
Wilde, the science of heredity, and the picture of Dorian Gray
pp.25-48
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391819_2
Figuring the financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, and Faulkner
pp.49-90
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391819_3
An evolutionary reengagement with Todorov's Decameron
pp.121-146
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391819_5Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 240
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-35174-9
ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-39181-9
Full citation:
Wainwright Michael (2012) Toward a sociobiological hermeneutic: Darwinian essays on literature. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.