The Descent of Love : : Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 / / Bert Bender.
Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise on sexual selection, rather than a...
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Bender, Bert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Descent of Love : Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 / Bert Bender. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©1996 1 online resource (456 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolutionary Anthropology and Sexual Selection in William Dean Howells's Their Wedding Journey -- 2. Courting Design: Chance, Choice, and Sexual Difference in Howells's Courtship Novels of the 1870s -- 3. Darwinian Problems in A Modern Instance: Heredity, Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression -- 4. Henry James and The Descent of Man: "The Loves of the Quadrupeds" in "The Madonna of the Future" and Roderick Hudson -- 5. Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady -- 6. Darwin and "The Natural History of Doctresses": The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- 7. Kate Chopin's Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening -- 8. The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man -- 9. The Damnation of Theron Ware: His Failure in "The Work of Selection" -- 10. Sources of Power in The Market-Place: Sexual Vigor, Nerve Force, and the Concealment of Emotions -- 11. Race and Sexual Selection in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars -- 12. Edith Wharton, from "The Descent of Man" to The Reef -- 13. Sexual Selection in The Sun Also Rises -- Appendix: Darwin in American Literary History since 1950 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise on sexual selection, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works on evolution, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers. These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature.In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their character's courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.Bringing the resources of the history of science and intellectual history to this, the first full-length study of the impact of Darwin's theories in American literature, Bender revises accepted views of social Darwinism, American literary realism, and modernism in American literature, forever changing our perceptions of courtship and sexual interaction in American fiction from 1871 to 1926 and beyond. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020) American fiction 19th century History and criticism. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Literature and science United States History. Romance fiction, American History and criticism. Cultural Studies. Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812233445 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512814293 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512814293 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512814293.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolutionary Anthropology and Sexual Selection in William Dean Howells's Their Wedding Journey -- 2. Courting Design: Chance, Choice, and Sexual Difference in Howells's Courtship Novels of the 1870s -- 3. Darwinian Problems in A Modern Instance: Heredity, Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression -- 4. Henry James and The Descent of Man: "The Loves of the Quadrupeds" in "The Madonna of the Future" and Roderick Hudson -- 5. Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady -- 6. Darwin and "The Natural History of Doctresses": The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- 7. Kate Chopin's Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening -- 8. The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man -- 9. The Damnation of Theron Ware: His Failure in "The Work of Selection" -- 10. Sources of Power in The Market-Place: Sexual Vigor, Nerve Force, and the Concealment of Emotions -- 11. Race and Sexual Selection in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars -- 12. Edith Wharton, from "The Descent of Man" to The Reef -- 13. Sexual Selection in The Sun Also Rises -- Appendix: Darwin in American Literary History since 1950 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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