Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing
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A fascinating study of the intellectual links between evolutionary science and literature.
Acknowledgements xIntroduction: literature, science and the hothouse of culture 1'Symbolical of more important things': writing science, religion and colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture' 31'Our origin, what matters it?': Wordsworth's excursive portmanteau of culture 57Charles Darwin's entanglements with stray colonists: cultivation and the species question 84'In one another's being mingle': biology and the dissemination of 'culture' after 1859 104Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies and mechanical devices in the margins of evolutionary writing 142Edmund Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation and contagious literature 164Conclusion: culture's field, culture's vital robe 187Notes 193Bibliography 223Index 234
