Colonies, Cults and Evolution
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Contents Acknowledgements page x inroduction: literature, science and the hothouse of cuIture 1-- 1 'Symbolical of more important things : writing science,religion and colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture' 31-- 2 'Our origin, what matters it?': Wordsworth's excursiveportmanteau of culture 57-- 3 Charles Darwin's entanglements with stray colonists:cultivation and the species question 84-- 4 'In one another's being mingle': biology and thedissemination of culture' after 1859 104-- 5 Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies and mechanical devices in the margins of evolutionary writing 142-- 6 Edmund Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation and contagious literature 164-- Conclusion: culture's feld, culture's vital robe 187-- Notes 193-- Bibliograpby 223-- Index 234--
Contents Acknowledgements page x inroduction: literature, science and the hothouse of cuIture 1-- 1 'Symbolical of more important things : writing science,religion and colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture' 31-- 2 'Our origin, what matters it?': Wordsworth's excursiveportmanteau of culture 57-- 3 Charles Darwin's entanglements with stray colonists:cultivation and the species question 84-- 4 'In one another's being mingle': biology and thedissemination of culture' after 1859 104-- 5 Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies and mechanical devices in the margins of evolutionary writing 142-- 6 Edmund Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation and contagious literature 164-- Conclusion: culture's feld, culture's vital robe 187-- Notes 193-- Bibliograpby 223-- Index 234--
Keywords
History of Ideas and Intellectual History, Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, History