Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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 robe
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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 robe
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Colonies, Cults and EvolutionLiterature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007