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catalog abstract "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. 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 characters' courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.".
catalog contributor b9340560.
catalog created "c1996.".
catalog date "1996".
catalog date "c1996.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-419) and index.".
catalog description "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 characters' courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.".
catalog description "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex: The Darwinian Unknown in American Literary History -- Sexual Selection -- The Descent of Love -- Recurrent Problems, Themes, and Scenes in the Courtship Novels -- 1871-1926 -- 1. Evolutionary Anthropology and Sexual Selection in William Dean Howells's Their Wedding Journey -- 2. Courting Design: Chance, Choice, and Sexual Difference in Howells's Courtship Novels of the 1870s -- 3. Darwinian Problems in A Modern Instance: Heredity, Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression -- 4. Henry James and The Descent of Man: "The Loves of the Quadrupeds" in "The Madonna of the Future" and Roderick Hudson -- 5. Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady -- 6. Darwin and "The Natural History of Doctresses": The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- 7. Kate Chopin's Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening -- 8. The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog extent "xvi, 440 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Descent of love.".
catalog identifier "0812233441 (alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Descent of love.".
catalog issued "1996".
catalog issued "c1996.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
catalog relation "Descent of love.".
catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
catalog spatial "United States".
catalog subject "813/.409354 20".
catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
catalog subject "American fiction English influences.".
catalog subject "Courtship in literature.".
catalog subject "Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Influence.".
catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) in literature.".
catalog subject "Literature and science English-speaking countries.".
catalog subject "Literature and science United States History.".
catalog subject "Love in literature.".
catalog subject "Love stories, American History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Man-woman relationships in literature.".
catalog subject "Mate selection in literature.".
catalog subject "PS374.L6 B46 1996".
catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
catalog tableOfContents "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex: The Darwinian Unknown in American Literary History -- Sexual Selection -- The Descent of Love -- Recurrent Problems, Themes, and Scenes in the Courtship Novels -- 1871-1926 -- 1. Evolutionary Anthropology and Sexual Selection in William Dean Howells's Their Wedding Journey -- 2. Courting Design: Chance, Choice, and Sexual Difference in Howells's Courtship Novels of the 1870s -- 3. Darwinian Problems in A Modern Instance: Heredity, Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression -- 4. Henry James and The Descent of Man: "The Loves of the Quadrupeds" in "The Madonna of the Future" and Roderick Hudson -- 5. Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady -- 6. Darwin and "The Natural History of Doctresses": The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- 7. Kate Chopin's Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening -- 8. The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man.".
catalog title "The descent of love : Darwin and the theory of sexual selection in American fiction, 1871-1926 / Bert Bender.".
catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
catalog type "text".