Contents
Acknowledgements page x
inroduction: literature, science and the hothouse of cuIture 1--
1 'Symbolical of more important things : writing science,religion and colonialism in Coleridge's 'culture' 31--
2 'Our origin, what matters it?': Wordsworth's excursiveportmanteau of culture 57--
3 Charles Darwin's entanglements with stray colonists:cultivation and the species question 84--
4 'In one another's being mingle': biology and thedissemination of culture' after 1859 104--
5 Samuel Butler's symbolic offensives: colonies and mechanical devices in the margins of evolutionary writing 142--
6 Edmund Gosse's cultural evolution: sympathetic magic, imitation and contagious literature 164--
Conclusion: culture's feld, culture's vital robe 187--
Notes 193--
Bibliograpby 223--
Index 234--
