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Index
Abraham (Genesis ), 237, 239, 243, 259, 261
Accident, in evolution, 60. See also Chance
Acquired characters, 87, 234. See also
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste
Adam, 41, 49
Adams, Brooks, 36
Adams, Henry, 3, 37, 40, 59, 87, 90, 108,
117, 374 n.2, 376 nn. 22, 24, 401 n.9; and
Butler, Samuel, 91, 380 n.10; on common
descent and instinct, 91 ; The Education
of Henry Adams, 33, 34 ; Esther, 37 ; and
Howells on the civilized family, 90 - 91 ; on
sex, 45 ; rev. of Their Wedding Journey, 36 ;
on woman, 51
Agassiz, Alexander, 401 n.9
Agassiz, Louis, 5, 34, 36, 107, 374 nn. 3, 5
Age of Evolutionism, the, 118
Alcott, Louisa May, 181
Allen, Grant, 236, 254, 280, 281, 372 n.24,
393 n.5; and Harold Frederic, 232, 233,
234 ; "The New Hedonism," and the
sacred beauty of sexual love, 233
Alps, the, 129, 263 ; and repose, 18
Altruism: questioned by Henry James, 154 ;
questioned by Frederic, 285
Amalgamation, racial, 290, 398 n.2. See also
Miscegenation
American Indians, 39, 42, 43, 62, 88, 206,
373 n.32
American literary history, 47 ; Darwin ab-
sence or minimal presence in, 4 - 8, 108,
361 - 68
American literary realism, xii, 1, 26, 44 ; and
love, 26
American romanticism, and the noble
savage, 42
Ancient Society ( Morgan), 88, 106
Anderson, Charles R., 388 n. 13
Anderson, Sherwood, 81, 201, 315, 342, 343,
350 ; Dark Laughter, 344 - 45, 351 ; and
Ulysses, 344
Andrews, William, 290 - 91, 398 n.6
Androgyny, 219, 402 n.3; in the evolution of
humankind, 16
Anthropology: Darwin and, 15, 18 - 19 ; and
psychology around 1900, 317. See also
Evolutionary anthropology
Anti-Semitism, 263, 354
Anti-sexual instinct (W. James), 371 n.8
Antipathy, in female choice, 22, 63, 215, 227
(see also Female choice in sexual selection);
racial, 299, 300
The Antiquity of Man (Lyell), 3, 34
Archer, Isabel. See under James Henry, The
Portrait of a Lady
Arrested development, 160, 172, 257
Asher, David, 390 n.3
Ashley, Brett (in The Sun Also Rises), 21,
24, 29 ; sexual impulse of, 352. See also
Hemingway Ernest, The Sun Also Rises
Assyriology, 239, 243
Atavism, 231, 251 - 53, 257, 259, 298
Athenaeum Club, 133
Athenaeum, 233
Atlantic Monthly, 8, 29, 33, 35, 36, 38, 42,
56, 88, 93, 106, 110, 114, 118, 132, 133, 155,
156, 157, 159, 167, 181, 362, 363, 375 n.13;
decision not to review The Descent of Man,
35, 363 ; first reference to sexual selection
in, 363 ; women readers of, 56
Avis, The Story of (Phelps), 170
Bannister, Robert C., 39, 299
Barbarism, 14, 19, 38, 237
Barnes, Jake (in The Sun Also Rises), 17, 18.
See also Hemingway Ernest, The Sun Also
Rises
Barr, Robert, 395 n.8
Barry, W. F., 397 n.7
Battle. See Law of battle, the
Baym, Nina, 391 n.4
Beach, Sylvia, 349

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926. Contributors: Bert Bender - author. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 421.
    
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