Early Evolutionary Imagination

Literature and Human Nature

AvEmelie Jonsson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030827403

Utforska kategorier

Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Kognitiv psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Emelie Jonsson is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Arctic University of Norway, UiT, and Associate Editor of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Her research centers on the friction between human psychology and naturalistic cosmology.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Chapter 1: Using Evolution to Explain the Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 2 Myth-Making in Early Evolutionary Thought.- Chapter 3: Darwinism in Literature.- Chapter 4: From Adventure to Utopia.- Chapter 5: Jack London’s Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 6: H. G. Wells’s Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 7: Joseph Conrad’s Evolutionary Imagination.- The Unimaginable Place in Nature.