Evolving Hamlet
Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection
Published on 15. March 2011
Book
Hardback
XVI, 192 pages
978-0-230-11168-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
2011 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XVI, 192 p.
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-11168-4 (9780230111684)
DOI
10.1057/9780230118386
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Person
ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.
Content
Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics