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Article: "No ideas but in things": fiction, criticism, and the new Darwinism.(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2007
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In the past decade or so, a small but rapidly growing band of literary scholars, theorists, and critics has been working to integrate literary study with Darwinian social science.
--Joseph Carroll, Literary Darwinism
Ian McEwan is among the most honored of today's novelists. Three of his novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a fourth, Amsterdam, won that award, and some of his other works have won yet other prestigious ones--the Whitbread Award by The Child in Time and the Somerset Maugham Award by his story collection First Love, Last Rites. His most recent novel, Saturday (2005), made almost every list of best books of the year and has ...