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George Henry Lewes fue un filósofo y crítico literario británico. También fue fisiólogo aficionado. La feminista americana Margaret Fuller lo describió como «un tipo de hombre ingenioso, francés, frívolo». Lewes se unió a la corriente victoriana de ideas que estimulaban el debate del darwinismo, el positivismo y el escepticismo religioso. No obstante, quizás hoy es más conocido ...
19 de nov. de 2019 · Eventually, she fell for another writer, George Henry Lewes. Urbane and famously ugly, he was trapped in a marriage to a wife who’d long been the lover of another man and had even borne children ...
Description. Thornton 'Thornie' Lewes was the second son of George Henry Lewes and Agnes Jarvis Lewes. Thornie was named after Lewes's close friend (and Agnes's longtime lover), Thornton Hunt. He attended a day school in Bayswater until 1856, when, at the age of 12, he was sent with his older brother Charles to an international boarding school ...
29 de nov. de 2018 · A year later Lewes savages Disraeli, saying 'His talents fail to win respect. His coxcombry is without grace; his seriousness without conviction'. Any criticism of Macaulay, however, is 'an earnest of our sincerity'. This admirable collection, its succinct introduction indicating the range and quality of Lewes's criticism, is a feast This is ...
George Henry Lewes. British philosopher and literary critic, born in London in 1817. He was a grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, the actor. He was educated in London. Jersey, Brittany, and finally at Dr. Burney's school in Greenwich. Having abandoned successively a commercial and a medical career, he seriously thought of becoming an actor, and ...
- April 18, 1817
- November 28, 1878
George Henry Lewes, född 18 april 1817, död 30 november 1878, var en brittisk författare. Lewes var en bohemnatur , som skaffade sig vidsträckt kännedom om människor och förhållanden genom att i tidigare år pröva på olika yrken - juristens , köpmannens , läkarens , skådespelarens och lärarens .
The best-known literary criticism by Lewes is the excellent Life and Works of Goethe (1855), which he researched, with Eliot's assistance, in Germany in 1854--55. Outside of criticism, philosophy, and science---his last work, unfinished at his death but completed by Eliot, was the multivolume Problems of Life and Mind (1874)---Lewes's writings ...
