Subversive Seduction

Name: Subversive Seduction
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295992198
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Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel

Autor: Travis Landry

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Washington Press

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Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection,...

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Autor

Travis Landry

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2012

strony

336

EAN

9780295992198

ISBN

0295992190

Enbook ID

04875023

Wydawca

University of Washington Press

Waga

518

Wymiary

154 x 228 x 25

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Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man - and in the decades since - about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women. Travis Landry is assistant professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.

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