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Jobling, Ian D.

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The emergence of the dark hero in Scott and Byron: A Darwinian perspective.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The emergence of the dark hero in Scott and Byron: A Darwinian perspective./
Author:	Jobling, Ian D.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2002,
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3063131
ISBN:	9780493819013

The emergence of the dark hero in Scott and Byron: A Darwinian perspective.
Jobling, Ian D.

The emergence of the dark hero in Scott and Byron: A Darwinian perspective. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2002 - 384 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation contends that contemporary work in evolutionary psychology provides a better psychological foundation for literary analysis than has previously been available to literary critics. I use three major ideas from evolutionary psychology to explain why the dark hero emerged in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron in the first third of the nineteenth century and why this character was received as it was. Contemporary Darwinism is an ethical egoism in that it posits that the sole reason for the evolution of the traits of organisms is their capacity to propagate the organism's genes. Scott and Byron were able to perceive and portray the underlying reality of human existence in their egoistic dark heroes. Second, evolutionary psychologists contend that, since biological evolution occurs much more slowly than cultural change, humans are not well adapted to their contemporary environment. The contemporary reading public's enjoyment of the violence of the dark hero in spite of the relative peaceableness of their society reflects the mismatch between biology and culture. Finally, evolutionary psychological work on variances in mating strategies enables us to see that the dark hero is a representation of the cad mating strategy, and the proper hero, of the dad mating strategy.

ISBN: 9780493819013Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Byron, Lord

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