American classics : evolutionary perspectives /

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...

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Main Author: Saunders, Judith P. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Series:Evolution, cognition, and the arts.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Table of Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Glossary --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Story of a Successful Social Animal --  |t 2. Nepotism in Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" --  |t 3. Biophilia in Thoreau's Walden --  |t 4. Bateman's Principle in "Song of Myself": Whitman Celebrates Male Ardency --  |t 5. Maladaptive Behavior and Auctorial Design: Huck Finn's Pap --  |t 6. Hell's Fury: Female Mate-Retention Strategies in Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed" and Ethan Frome --  |t 7. Male Reproductive Strategies in Sherwood Anderson's "The Untold Lie" --  |t 8. The Great Gatsby: An Unusual Case of Mate Poaching --  |t 9. Female Sexual Strategies in the Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay --  |t 10. Philosophy and Fitness: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and The Sun Also Rises --  |t 11. Paternal Confidence in Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits" --  |t 12. The Role of the Arts in Male Courtship Display: Billy Collins's "Serenade" --  |t Conclusion --  |t Works Cited --  |t Index 
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