The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 by Bender, Bert

University of Pennsylvania Press, 4/3/1996 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.1000 5.5000.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996-05. Hardcover. Good.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 440 pages. First edition (first printing). Light soiling to fore-edge else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 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,… Read More

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University of Pennsylvania Press , pp. xvi + 440 . Hardback. New.

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1996. Hardcover. New. 440 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.25 inches.

Hardback. New.