American Classics

This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues-courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example-in the context of both physical and social environment.
Judith P. Saunders is Professor of English at Marist College in New York State. She is the author of The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Border LinesandReading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction.

Judith P. Saunders is Professor of English at Marist College in New York State. She is the author of
The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Border Lines and
 Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction.