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- ISBN-13
- 9780415977197
- Book Title
- Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
0415977193
ISBN-13
9780415977197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52625971
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Publication Name
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception : Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Science Fiction & Fantasy, General, American / General, Books & Reading, Science & Technology, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
20.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2006-006780
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813.52
Table Of Content
Chapter 1 Metaphors of "Instinct and Tradition"; Chapter 2 "Blind Inherited Scruples": Lily Bart's Evolutionary Ethics; Chapter 3 The Incoherence of "Progress" in The Custom of the Country; Chapter 4 Newland Archer's "Hieroglyphic World"; ConclusionThe Limits of Wharton's "Objective Faculty";
Synopsis
Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth , The Custom of the Country , and The Age of Innocence . The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of her fiction. Ohler argues that Wharton depicts the complex interrelations of New York's gentry and socioeconomic elite from a perspective informed by the main concerns of evolutionary thought. Concentrating on her use of ideas she encountered in works by Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and T.H. Huxley, his readings of Wharton's major novels demonstrate the literary configuration of scientific ideas she drew on and, in some cases, disputed. R.W.B. Lewis writes that Wharton 'was passionately addicted to scientific study': this book explores the ramifications of this fact for her fictional sociobiology. The book explores the ways in which Edith Wharton's scientific interests shaped her analysis of class, affected the formal properties of her fiction, and resulted in her negative valuation of social Darwinism., "Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" "investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence. The book also examines "The Descent of Man," The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of her fiction. Ohler argues that Wharton depicts the complex interrelations of New York's gentry and socioeconomic elite from a perspective informed by the main concerns of evolutionary thought. Concentrating on her use of ideas she encountered in works by Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and T.H. Huxley, his readings of Wharton's major novels demonstrate the literary configuration of scientific ideas she drew on and, in some cases, disputed. R.W.B. Lewis writes that Wharton "was passionately addicted to scientific study": this book explores the ramifications of this fact for her fictional sociobiology. The book explores the ways in which Edith Wharton's scientific interests shaped her analysis of class, affected the formal properties of her fiction, and resulted in her negative valuation of social Darwinism., Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence. The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of her fiction. Ohler argues that Wharton depicts the complex interrelations of New York's gentry and socioeconomic elite from a perspective informed by the main concerns of evolutionary thought. Concentrating on her use of ideas she encountered in works by Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and T.H. Huxley, his readings of Wharton's major novels demonstrate the literary configuration of scientific ideas she drew on and, in some cases, disputed. R.W.B. Lewis writes that Wharton 'was passionately addicted to scientific study': this book explores the ramifications of this fact for her fictional sociobiology. The book explores the ways in which Edith Wharton's scientific interests shaped her analysis of class, affected the formal properties of her fiction, and resulted in her negative valuation of social Darwinism.
LC Classification Number
PS3545.H16Z753 2001
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