This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

MICHAEL WAINWRIGHTVisiting Lecturer at Staffordshire University, UK.

Oscar Wilde, the Science of Heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray  Figuring the Financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, and Faulkner Toward an Evolutionary Hamlet  The Biosocial Anthropology of Passing Game Theory in a Faulknerian Setting An Evolutionary Reengagement with Todorov's Decameron