The descent of love: Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926
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, rather than any of Darwin's...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works, 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 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xi
Note
to the Reader
xii
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
ι
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex:
The Darwinian Unknown in American Literary History
ι
Sexual Selection
9
The Descent of Love
14
Recurrent Problems, Themes, and Scenes in the Courtship
Novels
17
1871-1926
26
Part I: The 1870s and 1880s
1.
Evolutionary Anthropology and Sexual Selection
in William Dean Howells s Their Wedding Journey
33
The Origin of Civilisation
37
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
45
2.
Courting Design: Chance, Choice, and Sexual Difference
in Howells s Courtship Novels of the 1870s
58
Howells s Design and The Ugliness of the Original Design
58
Sexual Difference: Exquisite Manliness
65
Sexual Difference: Her Extreme Unconsciousness
73
viii Contents
3.
Darwinian
Problems
in A
Modern
Instance: Heredity,
Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression
83
Habit and Heredity
83
Primitive Promiscuity and Marriage
87
Sexual Selection: Those Fastnesses of His Nature Which
Psychology Has Not Yet Explored
93
4.
Henry James and The Descent of Man: The Loves of the
Quadrupeds in The Madonna of the Future
and Roderick Hudson
107
The Large Intellectual Appetite
107
The Madonna of the Future
114
Sexual Selection and Hereditary Genius in Roderick Hudson
116
5.
Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady
ιτ,ι,
The Big Wine and Water Novel
132
Spencer s Comparative Psychology of the Sexes
134
The Element of Pursuit
142
Isabel s Choice: Half the Story
145
Darwinism of the Mind
147
Love
152
6.
Darwin and The Natural History of Doctresses : The Sex
War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James
155
Dr. Breen s Practice
159
Dr. Zay
167
A Country Doctor
174
The
Bostonians
(Dr. Prance)
181
Part II: The 1890s
7.
Kate Chopin s Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening
197
Sexual Innocence and Racial
Différence
in At Fault
199
Early Stories of Male Dominance and Female Choice
203
The Unsolved Mystery : Love and Self-Assertion
209
Contents ix
8.
The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man
214
A Rich Mine of Facts
214
To Make a Selection
216
A Flaming, Outspoken Revolt Against the Ways of Nature
220
The Musky Odor of Pinks
228
9.
The Damnation of Therm Ware: His Failure in The Work
of Selection
230
Harold Frederic and the
Biologico-Literary Interaction
230
The Work of Illumination and The Work of Selection
238
Atavism and Degeneration:
Celia
and Theron
251
10.
Sources of Power in The Market-Place: Sexual Vigor,
Nerve Force, and the Concealment of Emotions
261
Man at
40 261
The Weary English
266
The English Woman and the Frank Barbarism of Power
269
Fear and Courage: The Expression and Concealment
of Emotions
274
Partili: 1900-1926
n.
Race and Sexual Selection in Charles W. Chesnutt s
The House Behind the Cedars
289
Varieties of Racial Science in Howells, DuBois, Boas,
and
Le Conte
291
Freedom through Natural and Sexual Selection
300
Blue-Veined Beauty with No Appetite
309
12.
Edith Wharton, from The Descent of Man to The Reef
314
Wharton and Sexual Selection after the Turn of the Century
314
The Descent of Man
318
The Choice
321
The Reef
326
χ
Contents
13. Sexual
Selection in The Sun Also Rises
341
Hemingway on Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford,
and W. H. Hudson
342
Sexual Selection According to Darwin, Ellis, and Pound
346
The Sun Also Rises
351
Appendix: Darwin in American Literary History since
1950 361
Notes
369
Works Cited
405
Index
421
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| spelling | Bender, Bert Verfasser aut The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 Bert Bender Philadelphia, Pa. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 1996 XVI, 440 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works, 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 Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> - Influence Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> Influence Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (DE-588)4218653-5 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1871-1926 gnd rswk-swf Amour dans la littérature Amours dans la littérature Choix du conjoint dans la littérature Histoires d'amour américaines - Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences - États-Unis - Histoire Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Roman américain - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - Influence anglaise Sexualité dans la littérature Évolution (Biologie) dans la littérature American fiction English influences American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Courtship in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Literature and science English-speaking countries Love in literature Love stories, American History and criticism Mate selection in literature Sex in literature Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (DE-588)4218653-5 u USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 s Geschichte 1871-1926 z DE-604 Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 s Digitalisierung UB Bamberg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=007332573&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Bender, Bert The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> - Influence Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> Influence Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (DE-588)4218653-5 gnd Amour dans la littérature Amours dans la littérature Choix du conjoint dans la littérature Histoires d'amour américaines - Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences - États-Unis - Histoire Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Roman américain - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - Influence anglaise Sexualité dans la littérature Évolution (Biologie) dans la littérature American fiction English influences American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Courtship in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Literature and science English-speaking countries Love in literature Love stories, American History and criticism Mate selection in literature Sex in literature Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 gnd |
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| title | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 |
| title_auth | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 |
| title_exact_search | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 |
| title_full | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 Bert Bender |
| title_fullStr | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 Bert Bender |
| title_full_unstemmed | The descent of love Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 Bert Bender |
| title_short | The descent of love |
| title_sort | the descent of love darwin and the theory of sexual selection in american fiction 1871 1926 |
| title_sub | Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871 - 1926 |
| topic | Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> - Influence Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> Influence Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (DE-588)4218653-5 gnd Amour dans la littérature Amours dans la littérature Choix du conjoint dans la littérature Histoires d'amour américaines - Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences - États-Unis - Histoire Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Roman américain - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - Influence anglaise Sexualité dans la littérature Évolution (Biologie) dans la littérature American fiction English influences American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Courtship in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Literature and science English-speaking countries Love in literature Love stories, American History and criticism Mate selection in literature Sex in literature Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 gnd |
| topic_facet | Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> - Influence Darwin, Charles <1809-1882> Influence Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex Amour dans la littérature Amours dans la littérature Choix du conjoint dans la littérature Histoires d'amour américaines - Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences - États-Unis - Histoire Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Roman américain - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman américain - Influence anglaise Sexualité dans la littérature Évolution (Biologie) dans la littérature American fiction English influences American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Courtship in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Literature and science English-speaking countries Love in literature Love stories, American History and criticism Mate selection in literature Sex in literature Roman Evolution USA |
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