The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 Tapa dura - 1996
de Bert Bender
Descripción de contraportada
Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers. These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature. In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their characters' courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.
Detalles
- Título The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926
- Autor Bert Bender
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 456
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1996-04-03
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780812233445 / 0812233441
- Peso 1.71 libras (0.78 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 1 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1600
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 95042582
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.409
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