| George Henry Lewes: A Victorian Mind Contributor(s): Tjoa, Hock Guan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674348745 ISBN-13: 9780674348745 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers |
| Dewey: 192 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Harvard Historical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.64" W x 8.04" (0.78 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tjoa, Hock Guan: - Hock Guan Tjoa is Lecturer in History and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. |
