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Bert Bender
Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In…
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Bender argues that Darwin’s theories of sexual selection are essential elements in American fiction from the late 1800s through the 1950s. He contends that novelists with different social points of…
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Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and…
In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaska’s Cook Inlet, Bert Bender describes his parallel careers as a commercial gill-netter and a professor of American literature. His narrative…
