Jonathan Gottschall

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jonathan Gottschall is involved.

Articles

Gottschall, Jonathan 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

Carroll, Joseph, John A. Johnson, Jonathan Gottschall and Daniel Kruger 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