Title
Sexual Selection in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines the text through the lens of sexual selection. Traces Hemingway’s use of Darwin’s principles of natural selection in relation to Brett’s characterization. Also discusses the influence of Havelock Ellis’s and Ezra Pound’s theories of modern sexual love.
Published in
The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926
Date
1996
Pages
341-359
COinS
Citation
Bender, Bert. “Sexual Selection in The Sun Also Rises.” In The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926, 41-59. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.