Colonies, Cults and Evolution : Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing Paperback / softback
by David (Professor, Keele University) Amigoni
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:254 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/02/2011
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- ISBN:9780521174053
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:254 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521174053