ABOUT THIS BOOK
"""Engaging, provocative in the best sense, Cooke's is an excellent book."" --George Gutsche, University of Arizona

""The virtuoso merging of sociobiological ideas and standard critical techniques is an important vindication for the whole idea of a sociobiological literary criticism. This is a highly accomplished piece of literary scholarship. It will long stand as a landmark."" --Joseph Carroll, University of Missouri "

REVIEWS

"Engaging, provocative in the best sense, Cooke's is an excellent book." --George Gutsche, University of Arizona

"The virtuoso merging of sociobiological ideas and standard critical techniques is an important vindication for the whole idea of a sociobiological literary criticism. This is a highly accomplished piece of literary scholarship. It will long stand as a landmark." --Joseph Carroll, University of Missouri

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One    Introduction: Human Nature and Utopia         3
Chapter Two    The Common Table in Utopia                   23
Chapter Three  Myths of Real People                         43
Chapter Four   The Art of Reason                            62
Chapter Five   Child's Play                                 87
Chapter Six    Beyond the Pleasure Principle               106
Chapter Seven  The Lex Sexualis                            126
Chapter Eight  The Body's Language                         146
Chapter Nine   Expression of the Self                      164