Toward a sociobiological hermeneutic

Darwinian essays on literature

Michael Wainwright

Palgrave Macmillan

2012

Abstract

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

Cited authors

Darwin Charles

Wilde Oscar

Shakespeare William

Faulkner William