CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- PART I THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN ORIGIN -- 1. Cognitive Science and the Problem of Representation -- 2. Imitation and Human Ontogeny: Michael Tomasello and the Scene of Joint Attention -- PART II THE END OF LITERATURE -- 3. The Critic as Ethnographer -- 4. The Culture of Criticism -- PART III TWO ORIGINARY ANALYSES -- 5. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Modern -- 6. A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- index.