The literary animal : evolution and the nature of narrative / edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson ; forewords by E. O. Wilson and Frederick Crews.

Foreword from the scientific side / E.O. Wilson
Foreword from the literary side / Frederick Crews
Introduction : Literature
a last frontier in human evolutionary studies / Jonathan Gotttschall and David Sloan Wilson
Part I. Evolution and literary theory
Literature, science, and human nature / Ian McEwan
Evolutionary social constructivism / David Sloan Wilson
From Lacan to Darwin / Dylan Evans
What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama / Daniel Nettle
Human nature and literary meaning : a theoretical model illustrated with a critique of Pride and prejudice / Joseph Carroll
The problem of romantic love : Shakespeare and evolutionary psychology / Marcus Nordlund
Male bonding in the epics and romances / Robin Fox
Part II. The evolutionary riddle of art
Evolutionary theories of art / Brian Boyd
Reverse-engineering narrative : evidence of special design / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Part III. Darwinian theory and scientific methods
Quantitative literary study : a modest manifesto and testing the hypotheses of feminist fairy tale studies / Jonathan Gottschall
Proper hero dads and dark hero cads : alternate mating strategies exemplified in British romantic literature / Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, Ian Jobling
Crossing the abyss : erotica and the intersection of evolutionary psychology and literary studies / Catherine Salmon
Afterword / Denis Dutton.