Literature, Science, and a New Humanities

JOHNATHAN GOTTSCHALL is English Instructor, Washington and Jefferson College, USA.

"This is an exhilarating book - a call for an intellectual revolution made with brio, unstinting reason, and an exciting proof of concept." - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University and author of The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, and The Stuff of Thought "Gottschall is a major star in the emerging field of literary Darwinism. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities makes a brilliant and passionate case that literary studies needs to adopt the research methods of the natural and social sciences in order to combat the intellectual sclerosis that has set in as theory s grip has weakened. The book is beautifully written, highly intelligent, and morally bracing - it is at once a strong challenge, a how-to manual, a manifesto, and a clarion call to change." - Blakey Vermeule, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University

• Introduction: Shrinking Possibility Space PART I: ON THEORY, METHOD, AND ATTITUDE On Theory On Method On Attitude PART II: CASE STUDIES AT THE NEXUS OF LITERATURE AND EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE The Heroine with a Thousand Faces Testing Feminist Fairy Tale Studies The Beauty Myth is No Myth Romantic Love: A Literary Universal Conclusion: FOTA Appendix A: Folktale Collections and Cultural Groupings for Chapters Four and Five Appendix B: Folktale Collections for Chapters Six and Seven