Joseph Carroll

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Joseph Carroll is a founding figure in evolutionary literary study. His book Evolution and Literary Theory, published in 1995, was the first book-length work in the field. His 2004 collection of essays, Literary Darwinism, gave the field the name by which it is most commonly known. Literary Darwinists are animated by a conviction that the human species has evolved in adaptive relation to a physical world, that human bodies and brains contain complex adaptive structures, and that the products of the literary imagination are shaped by biologically grounded motives, passions, and forms of cognition. Carroll’s more recent publications include a second collection of essays, Reading Human Nature (2011) and a collaborative empirical study, Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012).

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10-20-2014

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Charleston IL

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