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Author Bender, Bert.

Title Evolution and "the sex problem" : American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism / Bert Bender.

Publication Info. Kent : Kent State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.S33 B46 2004    Available  ---
Description xvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-375) and index.
Contents In a dark time -- Frank Norris on the evolution and repression of the sexual instinct -- "The chaos of his brain" : evolutionary psychology in The red badge of courage -- Jack London and "the sex problem" -- Theodore Dreiser, science, and "It" -- "The varieties of human experience" : sexual intimacy, heredity, and emotional conflict in Gertrude Stein's early work -- Sex and evolution in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The song of the lark -- "Under the shell of life" : Sherwood Anderson and "the call of sex" -- "His mind aglow" : the biological undercurrent in Fitzgerald's Gatsby and other works -- Harlem, 1928 : the biology of the black soul and the "rising tide of rhythm" -- V.F. Calverton and the principles of red love -- "To be alive" : John Steinbeck's The log from the Sea of Cortez and The wayward bus -- "Night song" : Africa and Eden in Hemingway's late work.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Literature and science -- English-speaking countries.
Literature and science.
English-speaking countries.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
American fiction -- English influences.
American fiction -- English influences.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Mate selection in literature.
Mate selection in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
ISBN 0873388097 alkaline paper