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Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 59) by David Amigoni is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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, anthropol
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Amigoni
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521884587
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Science, History, Biology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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