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Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance (CSLP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction: The Descent of Ethics

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    Pages 1-14
  3. Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet

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    Pages 39-66
  4. Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof

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    Pages 67-84
  5. Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare

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    Pages 101-122
  6. King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy

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    Pages 123-134
  7. The Progress of Ethics

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    Pages 135-146
  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 147-150
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-192

About this book

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

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ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.

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