Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature

Wainwright, M.

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-05-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349351749

DOI: 10.1057/9780230391819

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240