Colonies, Cults and Evolution - Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing

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.

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• Authors: David Amigoni, David (Professor Amigoni, Amigoni David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521174053
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17405-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900