David Amigoni

Colonies, Cults and Evolution

Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study of the intellectual links between evolutionary science and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174053
• ISBN-10: 0521174058
• Artikelnr.: 32465349

Autorenporträt

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: literature, science and the hothouse of culture; 1.
'Symbolical of more important things': writing science, religion and
colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture'; 2. 'Our origin, what matters it?':
Wordsworth's excursive portmanteau of culture; 3. Charles Darwin's
entanglements with stray colonists: cultivation and the species question;
4. 'In one another's being mingle': biology and the dissemination of
'culture' after 1859; 5. Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies and
mechanical devices in the margins of evolutionary writing; 6. Edmund
Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation, and contagious
literature; Conclusion: culture's field, culture's vital garment;
Bibliography.