Articles and Reviews included in
Literary Darwinism
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“
Evolution and Literary Theory,”
Human Nature
6 (1995): 119-34
.
“Poststructuralism, Cultural Constructivism, and Evolutionary Biology,”
Symploke
4 (1996): 203-219.
“Steven Pinker’s Cheesecake for the Mind,”
Philosophy and Literature
22 (1998): 478-
85.
“Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review Essay,”
Human Nature
8 (1998): 273-92.
Review of three books: John Bowlby’s
Charles Darwin: A New Life
, Adrian Desmond’s and James Moore’s
Darwin
, and Janet Browne’s
Charles Darwin:
Voyaging
,
in
TLS
(
Times Literary Supplement
), no. 4951 (February 20, 1998): 8-9.
Review of John Ellis’s
Literature Lost:
S
ocial Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
, in
TLS
(
Times Literary Supplement
), no. 4967 (June 12, 1998): 27.
“’Theory,’ Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism,”
in
Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts
, ed. Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner (Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999): 139-54.
“Wilson’s
Consilience
and Literary Study,”
Philosophy and Literature
23 (1999): 393-413.
“The Deep Structure of Literary Representations,”
Evolution and Human Behavior
20 (1999): 159-73.
“Universalien in der Literaturwissenschaft” (“Universals in Literary Study”),
in
Universalien und Konstruktivismus
, ed. Peter M. Hejl (
Frankfurt
: Suhrkamp, 2001): 235-56
.
(Reprinted, in English, as “Universals in Literary Study,” in
Literary Darwinism
)
“Human Universals and Literary Meaning: A Sociobiological Critique of
Pride and Prejudice
,
Villette
,
O Pioneers!,
Anna of the
Five
Towns
, and
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
,”
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
2 (2001): 9-27.
“The Ecology of Victorian Fiction,”
Philosophy and Literature
25 (2001): 295-313.
“Organism, Environment, and Literary Representation,”
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
9 (2002): 27-45.
“Adaptationist Literary Study: An Emerging Research Program,”
Style
36 (2003): 596-617.
“Adaptationist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten’s
Dance of the Tiger
, Auel’s
The Clan of the Cave Bear
, and Golding’s
The Inheritors
(not previously published before appearing in
Literary Darwinism
).
“Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of
Pride and Prejudice
,”
(not previously published before appearing in
Literary Darwinism
)
,
.
also published in
Literature and the Human Animal
, ed. Jonathan Gottschall and D. S. Wilson (
Evanston
,
IL
: Northwestern, 2005): 76-106.
“Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould,”
(not previously published before appearing in
Literary Darwinism
).
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