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George Henry Lewes from the contraction of a sensitive polyp when irritated through the development of specialized tissues - specifying nerves for irritation and muscles for movement. The simple reflex is the transitional point dif-ferentiating the nervous from the merely physical (Problems of Life and Mind: Third Series, pp. 244, 266, 374).
2 de dez. de 2020 · When Jane Eyre first appeared (Oct. 16, 1847) the publishers, Smith, Elder & Co., sent a complimentary copy to a young journalist named George Henry Lewes. The compliment had unexpected results. Lewes afterwards wrote Mrs. Gaskell: The enthusiasm with which I read it made me go down to Mr. Parker, and propose to write a review of it for Fraser's Magazine.
George Henry Lewes (Londen, 18 april 1817 – aldaar, 30 november 1878) was een Engelse filosoof, literair criticus en schrijver van toneelkritieken. Hij was een belangrijke vertegenwoordiger van de stroming in het victoriaanse Engeland die openstond voor darwinisme , positivisme en scepticisme tegenover bijvoorbeeld religie .
Today Lewes is remembered primarily as the consort of George Eliot, with whom he lived---but never married---from 1854 until his death. Because he had condoned his wife Agnes's adulterous relationship with T. L. Hunt, Lewes was unable to obtain a divorce. In 1850 Agnes bore the first of four of Hunt's children, whom Lewes adopted as his own.
George Henry Lewes. Today, a man of letters. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I' ve always stuttered-stepped over the Victorian term: man of letters. It's a term you would not apply to such great 19th-century ...
Having abandoned successive. George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot, a ...
7 de mar. de 2019 · Literary criticism of George Henry Lewes by Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878. Publication date 1964 Topics Criticism, Literature Publisher
