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George Henry Lewes, the Real Man of Science Behind George Eliot's Fictional Pedants


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dc.contributorBeverley Park Rilett, bdr0032@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorRilett, Beverley Park
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-01T01:05:57Z
dc.date.available2022-04-01T01:05:57Z
dc.date.created2016
dc.identifier10.5325/georelioghlstud.68.1.0004en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://georgeeliotscholars.org/items/show/317en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50056
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-125
dc.description.abstractThis 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 character from the chapter entitled “How We Encourage Research” in her final work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such. After Thomas Huxley published a devastating review of Lewes’s first book of science, Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences, the evidence suggests that Lewes became highly focused on disproving his critics and earning lasting recognition as a scientist, a feat he expected to achieve with his five-volume series, Problems of Life and Mind. The paper concludes with a discussion of what purpose Eliot may have intended when she modeled these characters after George Henry Lewes, her consistently defended partner.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherGeorge Eliot Scholarsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGeorge Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studiesen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA)en_US
dc.subjectGeorge Elioten_US
dc.subjectGeorge Henry Lewesen_US
dc.subjectMiddlemarchen_US
dc.subjectImpressions of Theophrastus Suchen_US
dc.subjectThomas Huxleyen_US
dc.titleGeorge Henry Lewes, the Real Man of Science Behind George Eliot's Fictional Pedantsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume68en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US
dc.citation.spage4en_US
dc.citation.epage24en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-1699-0323en_US

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