Article
Human Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Novels: Doing the Math
Philosophy and Literature
(2009)
Abstract
I three broad ambitions animate this study. Building on research in evolutionary social science, we aimed (1) to construct a model of human nature—of motives, emotions, features of personality, and preferences in marital partners;(2) use that model to analyze some specific body of literary texts and the responses of readers to those texts, and (3) produce data—information that could be quantified and could serve to test specific hypotheses about those texts.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Joseph C. Carroll, Jon Gottschall, John Johnston and Daniel Kruger. "Human Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Novels: Doing the Math" Philosophy and Literature Vol. 33 (2009) p. 50 - 72 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph-carroll/71/