Title Colonies, cults and evolution : literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing / David Amigoni.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 237 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 59
	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 59.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
Contents	'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.
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Subject	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and science.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Culture -- History -- 19th century.
	Culture.
	Culture in literature.
	Culture in literature.
	Evolution (Biology) in literature.
	Evolution (Biology) in literature.
	Colonies in literature.
	Colonies in literature.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Amigoni, David. Colonies, cults and evolution. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521884587 0521884586 (DLC) 2008295811 (OCoLC)173238952
ISBN	9780511379284 (electronic book)
	0511379285 (electronic book)
	9780521884587
	0521884586

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