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  1. Subversive seduction
    Darwin, sexual selection, and the Spanish novel
    Author: Landry, Travis
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0295804424; 0295992182; 9780295804422; 9780295992181
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and science; Sexual selection in literature; Spanish fiction; Sexual selection in literature; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Literature and science; Sexuelle Selektion; Spanisch; Roman
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 335 pages)
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    "The Modern Language Initiative"--T.p. verso

    "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."Travis Landry has an enviable gift for selecting the best quote to support an argument and it is truly a pleasure to read a book about canonical novels that has something new to say on every page."--Lou Charnon-Deutsch, State University of New York at Stony Brook "A fascinating book. Landry's work is groundbreaking because he never leaves Darwin behind to explore Spanish literature outfitted merely with a couple of Darwinian catchphrases. Rather, he has read and reread The Descent, and, much like Darwin working in nature, comes to see the workings of Darwinian principles infusing ideas and practices in Spanish culture, far more deeply than has previously been shown." -Dale Pratt, Brigham Young University"--

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Subversive seduction
    Darwin, sexual selection, and the Spanish novel
    Author: Landry, Travis
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780295992181; 9780295992198
    Series: The modern language initiative
    Subjects: Sexual selection in literature; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Literature and science; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Spanisch; Sexuelle Selektion; Roman
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: VIII, 335 S.
    Notes:

    "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."Travis Landry has an enviable gift for selecting the best quote to support an argument and it is truly a pleasure to read a book about canonical novels that has something new to say on every page." -Lou Charnon-Deutsch, State University of New York at Stony Brook "A fascinating book. Landry's work is groundbreaking because he never leaves Darwin behind to explore Spanish literature outfitted merely with a couple of Darwinian catchphrases. Rather, he has read and reread The Descent, and, much like Darwin working in nature, comes to see the workings of Darwinian principles infusing ideas and practices in Spanish culture, far more deeply than has previously been shown." -Dale Pratt, Brigham Young University"-- Provided by publisher.
  3. Further letters
    Author: Martineau, Harriet
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Lehigh Univ. Press, Bethlehem [Pa.]

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781611460872
    Subjects: Authors, English; Women social reformers; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Social History; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
    Other subjects: Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876); Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
    Scope: XII, 613 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    "Harriet Martineau is one of the most prolific and well-connected Victorian writers to have fallen off the literary map in the century following her death. This eclectic collection of letters ranges from the 1820s through 1870s and includes private and professional correspondence, from brief notes to long discourses, addressing topics from domestic minutiae and personal health to national and international affairs with people like Maria Weston Chapman, Jane Welsh Carlyle, James Martineau, Elizabeth Jesser Reid, and Henry Atkinson"-- Provided by publisher.
  4. John Addington Symonds (1840 - 1893) and homosexuality
    a critical edition of sources
    Author: Brady, Sean
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

  5. John Addington Symonds (1840 - 1893) and homosexuality :
    a critical edition of sources /
    Author: Brady, Sean
    Published: 2012.
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan,, Basingstoke :

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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