Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature

By Michael Wainwright

Book Overview

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023039180X
• ISBN13: 9780230391802
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"