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

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Amigoni, David
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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xi, 237 pages ; 23 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 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 dissmination 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.
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9780521174053 (pbk.)
0521174058 (pbk.)
Note
Originally published: 2007.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the George and Barbara Kelly English Endowment for Library Support; 2010.
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George and Barbara Kelly English Endowment for Library Support
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