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Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing

Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing

Amigoni, David

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 59

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521174058
ISBN13: 9780521174053
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 17 2011
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold, Butler, and Gosse, David Amigoni shows how the modern concept of 'culture' developed out of the interdisciplinary interactions between literature, philosophy, anthropology, colonialism, and, in particular, Darwin's theories of evolution. He goes on to explore the relationship between literature and evolutionary science by arguing that culture was seen less as a singular idea or concept, and more as a field of debate and conflict. This fascinating book includes much material on the history of evolutionary thought and its cultural impact, and will be of interest to scholars of intellectual and scientific history as well as of literature.

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