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 on sexual selection, rather than a...
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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 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, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their character's courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.Bringing the resources of the history of science and intellectual history to this, the first full-length study of the impact of Darwin's theories in American literature, Bender revises accepted views of social Darwinism, American literary realism, and modernism in American literature, forever changing our perceptions of courtship and sexual interaction in American fiction from 1871 to 1926 and beyond |
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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. University of Pennsylvania Press [2015] © 1996 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Sep. 08, 2016) 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, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their character's courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.Bringing the resources of the history of science and intellectual history to this, the first full-length study of the impact of Darwin's theories in American literature, Bender revises accepted views of social Darwinism, American literary realism, and modernism in American literature, forever changing our perceptions of courtship and sexual interaction in American fiction from 1871 to 1926 and beyond In English 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 Geschichte American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Literature and science United States History Romance fiction, American History and criticism Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 gnd rswk-swf Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf USA 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 1\p DE-604 Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 s 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512814293 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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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 |
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| 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 The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (DE-588)4218653-5 gnd Geschichte American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Literature and science United States History Romance fiction, American History and criticism Evolution (DE-588)4071050-6 gnd Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd |
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