Nanelle Barash

Every university has a visible divide between the liberal arts students and the STEM majors, which can usually be seen on Fridays where there isn’t a BA candidate to be found. But I think Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature can bridge that divide. Authors David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash bring together the worlds of psychology, evolutionary biology, and literature to ask important questions like:

• How to make Rhett give a damn.
• What do Jane Austen’s women really want?
• What’s with Portnoy and Caulfield’s parental issues?
• Why the heck do we like all our heroes to be orphans?

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