American Classics: Evolutionary Perspectives (Evolution, Cognition, And The Arts)

This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues--courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example--in the context of both physical and social environment.

• | Author: Judith P. Saunders
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1618117653
• | ISBN-13: 9781618117656