Browsing Auburn University Libraries by Subject "George Henry Lewes"
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George Henry Lewes, the Real Man of Science Behind George Eliot's Fictional Pedants
(2022-04-01)
This paper demonstrates that George Eliot drew on George Henry Lewes’s actual experience as an emerging scientist in her depiction of two fictional scholars, Edward Casaubon of Middlemarch and Proteus Merman, a lesser-known ...
The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot's Career: A Reconsideration
(2022-03-31)
Rilett's article examines the "protection" and "encouragement" George Henry Lewes provided to Eliot throughout her fiction-writing career. According to biographers, Lewes showed his selfless devotion to Eliot by encouraging ...
Victorian Sexual Politics and the Unsettling Case of George Eliot's Response to Walt Whitman
(2022-04-01)
George Eliot and Walt Whitman, two of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century, are rarely discussed in relation to one another. They did not correspond, nor did either writer ever cross the Atlantic. There ...