TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saunders, Judith
AB  - This collection of essays offers evolutionary psychological analysis of selected works from the American literary tradition. Application of evolutionary theory to writing by Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, F. Scot Fitzgerald, Zora Neal Hurston, and others creates an interdisciplinary framework for examining key textual features—plot, theme, tone, setting, symbol, characterization, point of view—and at the same time provides an accessible introduction to Darwinian literary critical methodology. Pertinent scientific research, together with essential terms and concepts, is explained in context. Connections are made throughout to existing commentary on the targeted texts, illustrating how Darwinian scrutiny can enrich, extend, or reconfigure understandings derived from other critical approaches.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctv4v3226
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000365
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1076657920
KW  - Literature
KW  - Classic Literature
KW  - Evolution
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Essays
KW  - Evolutionary Theory
KW  - Literary Tradition
KW  - Darwinian literary critical methodology
KW  - Henry David Thoreau
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5cc92e9e-b442-4947-a6d9-3fdbec226439/1000365.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29567
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2018-06-30
SN  - 9781618115928
TI  - American Classics : Evolutionary Perspectives
ER  - 
