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Evolution and "the sex problem" : American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism
- Title
- Evolution and "the sex problem" : American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism / Bert Bender.
- Author
- Bender, Bert.
- Publication
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xvi, 389 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-375) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : in a dark time -- 1. Frank Norris on the evolution and repression of the sexual instinct -- 2. "The chaos of his brain" : evolutionary psychology in The Red Badge of Courage -- 3. Jack London and "the sex problem" -- 4. Theodore Dreiser, science, and "it" -- 5. "The varieties of human experience" : sexual intimacy, heredity, and emotional conflict in Gertrude Stein's early work -- 6. Sex and evolution in Willa Cather's O pioneers! and The song of the Lark -- 7. "Under the shell of life" : Sherwood Anderson and "The call of sex" -- 8. "His mind aglow" : the biological undercurrent in Fitzgerald's Gatsby and other works -- 9. Harlem, 1928 : the biology of the black soul and the "rising tide of rhythm" -- 10. V. F. Calverton and the principles of red love -- 11. "To be alive" : John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez and The wayward bus -- 12. "Night song" : Africa and Eden in Hemingway's late work.
- ISBN
- 0873388097 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008855
- OCLC
- ocm55000564
- SCSB-5093418
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries