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The descent of love : Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871-1926 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The descent of man and selection in relation to sex: the Darwinian unknown in American literary history
- Sexual selection
- The descent of love
- Recurrent problems, themes, and scenes in the courtship novels, 1871-1926
- Evolutionary anthropology and sexual selection in William Dean Howells's Their wedding journey
- Courting design: chance, choice, and sexual difference in Howells's courtship novels of the 1870s
- Darwinian problems in a modern instance: heredity, primitive marriage, and male sexual aggression
- Henry James and The descent of man: "The loves of the quadrupeds" in "The madonna of the future" and Roderick Hudson
- Psychological Darwinism in The portrait of a lady
- Darwin and "The natural history of doctresses": the sex war between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James
- Kate Chopin's quarrel with Darwin before the awakening
- The teeth of desire: the awakening and the descent of man.