The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative

Contents

Contents E. O. Wilson Foreword from the Scientific Side vii Frederick Crews Foreword from the Literary Side xiii Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson Introduction: Literature—a Last Frontier in Human Evolutionary Studies xvii PART I: EVOLUTION AND LITERARY THEORY Ian McEwan Literature, Science, and Human Nature 5 David Sloan Wilson Evolutionary Social Constructivism 20 Dylan Evans From Lacan to Darwin 38 Daniel Nettle What Happens in Hamlet? Exploring the Psychological Foundations of Drama 56 Joseph Carroll Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice 76 Marcus Nordlund The Problem of Romantic Love: Shakespeare and Evolutionary Psychology 107 Robin Fox Male Bonding in the Epics and Romances 126 PART II: THE EVOLUTIONARY RIDDLE OF ART Brian Boyd Evolutionary Theories of Art 147 Michelle Scalise Sugiyama Reverse-Engineering Narrative: Evidence of Special Design 177 PART III: DARWINIAN THEORY AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS Jonathan Gottschall Quantitative Literary Study: A Modest Manifesto and Testing the Hypotheses of Feminist Fairy Tale Studies 199 Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, and Ian Jobling Proper Hero Dads and Dark Hero Cads: Alternate Mating Strategies Exemplified in British Romantic Literature 225 Catherine Salmon Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies 244 Denis Dutton Afterword 259 Works Cited 265 Contributors 301 ...