George Henry Lewes: A Victorian Mind (Harvard Historical Monographs) - Hardcover

Tjoa, Hock Guan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674348745 ISBN 13: 9780674348745

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1978

Synopsis

George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher. An intellectual figure of great importance on the Victorian scene, he has never before received adequate modern scholarly appreciation. In this book Professor Tjoa not only reconstructs Lewes’ theory of criticism and his social and political opinions but also evaluates his contributions to Darwinian science both as original thinker and as popularizer. With skillful discrimination, moreover, Mr. Tjoa has extracted from Lewes’ massive five-volume Problems of Life and Mind a clear and succinct account of Lewes’ metaphysical views. Literature and art, politics and societs science and an in- formed Victorian philosophy of man and the universe: the effervescent Lewes made important contributions to all. Hitherto in danger of surviving in our minds only as the lover, friend, and counselor of one of the Victorian age’s greatest novelists, Lewes emerges in Mr. Ijoa’s brief and lucid study as a thinker to he remembered for his writings as well.

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About the Author:

Hock Guan Tjoa is Lecturer in History and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0674348745
• ISBN 13: 9780674348745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 172