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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Methods and Results
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Front Matter
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Implications
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Case Studies
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
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Reviews
"Graphing Jane Austen shines a spotlight that not only would make C. P. Snow proud but also helps better understand our culture's relationship with constructs like personality, gender, and introversion." - Brainpickings
"In merging literary and evolutionary approaches, this book is certain to bring delight to an evolutionary audience and a combination of interest and consternation to the literary contingent. This is wholly appropriate for a fascinating pioneering work." - Christopher Boehm, Director, The Goodall Research Center, University of Southern California
"[The authors] bring three vital ingredients to this study of nineteenth-century English novels: a love of the novels, a modern understanding of human evolutionary biology, and facility with modern methods of data analysis. The result is a stunning synthesis; many dream of some reconciliation between the sciences and the humanities. [This book] has actually stepped in and started us down that road." - Henry Harpending, professor of Anthropology, University of Utah
'Once every century or so, a paradigm shift erupts in how we perceive literature. Graphing Jane Austen is this century's revolution. It is a masterpiece of creative, synthesizing science that lays the groundwork for an entirely new way of looking at and understanding literature. - Barbara Oakley, Professor of Engineering, Oakland University and author of Cold-Blooded Kindness and Evil Genes
'This is a strikingly original book, full of surprising insights into human nature and the way novels work.' R. Headlam-Wells, Professor Emeritus, Roehampton University London
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Graphing Jane Austen
Book Subtitle: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
Authors: Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, Daniel J. Kruger
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002419
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, and Daniel J. Kruger 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00240-2Published: 24 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43377-3Published: 24 April 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00241-9Published: 29 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 305
Topics: Literary History, Cognitive Psychology, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature