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3. Darwinian Problems in A Modern Instance: Heredity,
Primitive Marriage, and Male Sexual Aggression 		83
Habit and Heredity 83
Primitive Promiscuity and Marriage 87
Sexual Selection: "Those Fastnesses of His Nature Which
Psychology Has Not Yet Explored" 		93
4. Henry James and The Descent of Man: "The Loves of the
Quadrupeds" in "The Madonna of the Future"
and Roderick Hudson 		107
"The Large Intellectual Appetite" 107
"The Madonna of the Future" 114
Sexual Selection and Hereditary Genius in Roderick Hudson 116
5. Psychological Darwinism in The Portrait of a Lady 132
"The Big 'Wine and Water' Novel" 132
Spencer's "Comparative Psychology of the Sexes" 134
"The Element of Pursuit" 142
Isabel's Choice: "Half the Story" 145
Darwinism of the Mind 147
"Love" 152
6. Darwin and "The Natural History of Doctresses": The Sex
War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James 		155
Dr. Breen's Practice 159
Dr. Zay7 167
A Country Doctor 174
The Bostonians (Dr. Prance) 181

Part II: The 1890s
7. Kate Chopin's Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening 197
Sexual Innocence and Racial Difference in At Fault 199
Early Stories of Male Dominance and Female Choice 203
"The Unsolved Mystery": "Love" and "Self-Assertion" 209

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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: viii.
    
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