Colonies, Cults and Evolution

作者: David Amigoni

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关键词: Field (Bourdieu)Sociocultural evolutionHistoryLiteratureColonialismSympathetic magicImitationCharles darwinPortmanteauHistory of ideas

摘要: Introduction: literature, science and the hothouse of culture 1. 'Symbolical more important things': writing science, religion colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture' 2. 'Our origin, what matters it?': Wordsworth's excursive portmanteau 3. Charles Darwin's entanglements with stray colonists: cultivation species question 4. 'In one another's being mingle': biology dissemination after 1859 5. Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies mechanical devices margins evolutionary 6. Edmund Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation, contagious literature Conclusion: culture's field, vital garment Bibliography.