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OverviewDarwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emelie JonssonPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9783030827403ISBN 10: 3030827402 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 01 October 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Using Evolution to Explain the Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 2 Myth-Making in Early Evolutionary Thought.- Chapter 3: Darwinism in Literature.- Chapter 4: From Adventure to Utopia.- Chapter 5: Jack London’s Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 6: H. G. Wells’s Evolutionary Imagination.- Chapter 7: Joseph Conrad’s Evolutionary Imagination.- The Unimaginable Place in Nature.ReviewsAuthor InformationEmelie Jonsson is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Arctic University of Norway, UiT, and Associate Editor of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Her research centers on the friction between human psychology and naturalistic cosmology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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