Re: darwin and nature writing list

[Elizabeth Schultz <eschultz@ku.edu>]

Certainly Jack London should be added to this fiction list, and critical 
works by Bert Bender, Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual 
Selection and The Sex Problem: American Narratives and The Eclipse of  
Darwinism. Beth Schultz

Thomas P Lynch wrote:
> Folks, here's the list of suggestions that I received to my query regarding
> works pertaining to Darwin and American nature writing.  I'm sure we could
> add a lot to this.
>
> Thanks so much,
> TL
>
> Darwin and nature writing
>
> SCIENCE AND/OR NATURE WRITING
> Michael Pollan The Botany of Desire
> Stephen Jay Gould,  most anything
> E.O. Wilson, most anything
> Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature
> Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography
> Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
> Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch
> Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea
> David Quammen, Flight of the Iguana
> John Muir, "A Windstorm in the Forest"
> Hermann Melville, "The Encantadas"
> John Burroughs, Time and Change
>
> POETRY:
> Pattiann Rogers, Splitting and Binding
>
> FICTION:
> Doris Lessing, Dann and Mara
> Frank Norris, McTeague
> George R Stewart Earth Abides or Sheep Rock
> Kate Chopin, The Awakening
> Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
> Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
> Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
> Philip Roth, Portnoys Complaint
> Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
> William Faulkner, "The Bear"
> Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
>
> LIT CRIT:
> Tom Dunlap, "The Realistic Animal Story: Ernest Thompson Seton, Charles
> Roberts, and Darwinism" Robert H. MacDonald's "The Revolt Against
> Instinct" in The Wild Animal Story
> Jean Arnold "From So Simple a Beginning: Evolutionary Origins of US Nature
> Writing," ISLE 10.1.
> Tim Morton, The Ecological Thought
> Barash and Barash, Madame Bovarys Ovaries
> Glenn Adelson and John Elder's study of Robert Frost's "Spring
> Pools," (ISLE     13.2)
> John Elder's chapter on A. R. Ammons' "Corsons Inlet" in Imagining the
> Earth.
> Joseph Carroll, most anything
>
>
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