12. The Role of the Arts in Male Courtship Display: Billy Collins’s “Serenade”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Glossary viii
5. Introduction x
6. 1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Story of a Successful Social Animal 1
7. 2. Nepotism in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” 23
8. 3. Biophilia in Thoreau’s Walden 37
9. 4. Bateman’s Principle in “Song of Myself”: Whitman Celebrates Male Ardency 61
10. 5. Maladaptive Behavior and Auctorial Design: Huck Finn’s Pap 78
11. 6. Hell’s Fury: Female Mate-Retention Strategies in Wharton’s “Pomegranate Seed” and Ethan Frome 97
12. 7. Male Reproductive Strategies in Sherwood Anderson’s “The Untold Lie” 126
13. 8. The Great Gatsby: An Unusual Case of Mate Poaching 138
14. 9. Female Sexual Strategies in the Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay 175
15. 10. Philosophy and Fitness: Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and The Sun Also Rises 204
16. 11. Paternal Confidence in Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” 226
17. 12. The Role of the Arts in Male Courtship Display: Billy Collins’s “Serenade” 246
18. Conclusion 253
19. Works Cited 263
20. Index 283