Displaying a wide range of knowledge and interpretive skill, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness and charting the manner in which Faulkner learned and applied his evolutionary concepts, this book unsettles staid interpretations of the Falknerian canon and overturns habitual judgments as to the value of his later novels.

This book offers the first comprehensive consideration of parasitic worms, their ability to mold creative imaginations, and the literature that results from these vermicular formations. The representatives of these inscriptions are three of the most prominent authors of the long nineteenth century: Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Their writings cover a transitory period in science when parasitology became a contested discourse both in and beyond the scientific realm. While the untold cases of Stoker and Stevenson involve helminths, the untold case of Doyle...