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Informationen zum Autor David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University. Klappentext A fascinating study of the intellectual links between evolutionary science and literature. Zusammenfassung 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. This fascinating book includes much material on the history of evolutionary thought and its cultural impact. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
