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Colonies, cults and evolution : literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
59. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- '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.