Jonathan Gottschall
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan Gottschall plays a role.
Articles
2013 Toward consilience, not literary Darwinism Scientific Study of Literature 3:1, pp. 16–18 | Article
All literary Darwinists take inspiration from E. O. Wilson’s concept of consilience--the idea that the disciplines are seamlessly interconnected, and that knowledge at higher levels of the explanatory hierarchy (e.g., biology and psychology) is constrained by knowledge at lower levels (e.g.,… read more
2012 Graphing Jane Austen: Agonistic structure in British novels of the nineteenth century Scientific Study of Literature 2:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
Building on findings in evolutionary psychology, we constructed a model of human nature and used it to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels. Characters were rated on the web by 519 scholars and students of Victorian… read more