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  title info:
    title: Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian lens
    sub title: evolutionary biological issues in her fiction
  name:
    name part: Saunders, Judith P.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 241 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This book identifies evolutionary issues central to Edith Wharton's fiction. Discussing whether and when Wharton's characters' behavior is evolutionarily adaptive, that is, whether it promotes the passing on of genes, places Wharton's social criticism in a useful new framework, opening the way to richer comprehension of her views on human nature"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: The house of mirth: an unsuccessful mate search -- The reef: the costs of conflict between the sexes -- The age of innocence: nepotistic influences on mating behavior -- The glimpses of the moon: a creative experiment in long-term mating -- The old maid and "Roman fever": female mate choice and competition between women -- The children: social environment and parental investment -- Conclusion: evolutionary biological preoccupations in Wharton's fiction.
  note: Judith P. Saunders.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wharton, Edith
      name part: 1862-1937
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology) in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Darwin, Charles
      name part: 1809-1882
    topic: Influence
  classification: PS3545.H16 Z876 2009
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 9780786440023 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786440023 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009006123
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090211
    record change date: 20151110115146.0
    record identifier: in00002466305