Literary Darwinism - Softcover

Carroll, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415970148 ISBN 13: 9780415970143

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Carroll is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has published books on Matthew Arnold and Wallace Stevens. In Evolution and Literary Theory (1995) and in his subsequent writing, he has spearheaded the movement to integrate literary study with Darwinian psychology.

Review:

Carroll is at his best (and that is very good indeed) when debunking and constructively criticizing the errors of others. . . . Indeed, his concluding essay is the best, most forceful and, indeed, biologically informed take-down of "spandrels" and the like that I have ever read. David Barash, University of Washington

Carroll's unswerving optimism is refreshing and lends a sense of inclusiveness and shared purpose to his work, all too rare in academic criticism. Tim Horvath, CogWeb

Literary Darwinism is a major work by a critic at the forefront of a developing paradigm . . . [that] requires the critics' thorough grounding in the biological and human sciences to do its important work. John Knapp, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415970148
• ISBN 13: 9780415970143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304