American Classics : Evolutionary Perspectives

• Main Author: Saunders, Judith
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: United States Academic Studies Press 2018
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: American; American Literature; American literature in English; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Book Industry Communication; Classic Literature; Darwinian literary critical methodology; Essays; Evolution; Evolutionary Theory; Henry David Thoreau; LITERARY CRITICISM; Literary studies: general; Literary Tradition; Literature; Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literature: history and criticism; thema EDItEUR

This collection of essays offers evolutionary psychological analysis of selected works from the American literary tradition. Application of evolutionary theory to writing by Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, F. Scot Fitzgerald, Zora Neal Hurston, and others...