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Colonies, cults and evolution : = literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Colonies, cults and evolution :/ David Amigoni.
Reminder of title:	literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing /
remainder title:	Colonies, Cults & Evolution
Author:	Amigoni, David,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484711
ISBN:	9780511484711 (ebook)

Colonies, cults and evolution : = literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing /
Amigoni, David,

Colonies, cults and evolution :literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing /Colonies, Cults & EvolutionDavid Amigoni. - 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;59. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

The concept of culture, now such an important term within both the arts and the sciences, is a legacy of the nineteenth century. By closely analyzing writings by evolutionary scientists such as Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, and Herbert Spencer, alongside those of literary figures including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold, Butler, and Gosse, David Amigoni shows how the modern concept of 'culture' developed out of the interdisciplinary interactions between literature, philosophy, anthropology, colonialism, and, in particular, Darwin's theories of evolution. He goes on to explore the relationship between literature and evolutionary science by arguing that culture was seen less as a singular idea or concept, and more as a field of debate and conflict. This fascinating book includes much material on the history of evolutionary thought and its cultural impact, and will be of interest to scholars of intellectual and scientific history as well as of literature.

ISBN: 9780511484711 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR468.S34 / A55 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 820/.9/356

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