Description
This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues-courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example-in the context of both physical and social environment.
Author: Judith P. Saunders
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 07/24/2018
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781618117663
ISBN10: 1618117661
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Psychology | Evolutionary Psychology
About the Author
Judith P. Saunders is Professor of English at Marist College in New York State. She is the author of The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Border Lines and Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction.