Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance: Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (Hardcover)

J Carroll; J Gottschall; John A Johnson
9781137002402
1-137-00240-9

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate.

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the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster.