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