Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Paperback)

Introduction
Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottshcall
Part I. Evolution and Human Nature
Historical Overview
1. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (2008)
David M. Buss
The Theory of Evolution
2. Recapitulation and Conclusion, from On the Origin of Species (1859)
Charles Darwin
3. The Digital River (1995)
Richard Dawkins
Humankind
4. General Summary and Conclusion, from The Descent of Man (1871)
Charles Darwin
5. Man: From Sociobiology to Sociology (1975)
Edward O. Wilson
6. The Universal People (1991)
Donald E. Brown
7. Sociobiology at Century's End (2000)
Edward O. Wilson
8. Evolution and Explanation (2005)
Steven Pinker
9. Evolutionary Social Constructivism (2005)
David Sloan Wilson
Part II. The Riddle of Art
10. Art and Adaptation (1997)
Steven Pinker
11. The Arts and Their Interpretation (1998)
Edward O. Wilson
12. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (2000)
Ellen Dissanayake
13. Arts of Seduction (2000)
Geoffrey Miller
14. Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, by Fiction
John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
15. The Uses of Fiction (2009)
Denis Dutton
Part III. Literature by Film
16. Getting It All Wrong: Bioculture Critiques Cultural Critique (2006)
Brian Boyd
17. Imagining Human Nature
Joseph Carroll, by Jonathan Gottschall
18. Two Worlds: The Ghost and the Machine (2008)
Edward Slingerland
19. Consilient Literary Interpretation (2002)
Marcus Nordlund
20. Humanism and Human Nature in the Renaissance (2005)
Robin Headlam Wells
21. The Reality of Illusion (1996)
Joseph Anderson
22. Darwin and the Directors: Film, by Emotion
Murray Smith
23. What Snakes, by Eagles
David Bordwell
Part IV. Interpretations
24. Homeric Women: Re-imagining the Fitness Landscape (2008)
Jonathan Gottschall
25. New Science, by Old Myth: An Evolutionary Critique of the Oedipal Paradigm (2001)
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
26. The Wheel of Fire and the Mating Game: Explaining the Origins of Tragedy and Comedy (2005)
Daniel Nettle
27. Jealousy in Othello (2007)
Marcus Nordlund
28. Wordsworth, by Psychoanalysis
Nancy Easterlin
29. Vindication and Vindictiveness: Oliver Twist (2007)
William Flesch
30. The Cuckoo's History: Human Nature in Wuthering Heights (2008)
Joseph Carroll
31. Human Nature, by Utopia
Brett Cooke
32. Paternal Confidence in Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits"
Judith P. Saunders
33. Character in Citizen Kane (1996)
Joseph Anderson
34. Convention, by Construction
David Bordwell
35. Art and Evolution: The Avant-Garde as Test Case: Spiegelman in The Narrative Corpse (2008)
Brian Boyd
Part V. Literature as Laboratory
36. Literature, by Science
Jonathan Gottschall
37. Slash Fiction and Human Mating Psychology (2004)
Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons
38. Cultural Variation Is Part of Human Nature: Literary Universals, by Context-Sensitivity
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
39. Paleolithic Politics in British Novels of the Longer Nineteenth Century
Joseph Carroll, by Jonathan Gottschall
Bibliography
Contributors
Index