G. H. Lewes and the Impossible Classification of Organic Life.
This paper discusses George Henry Lewes's study of living matter in The Physiology of Common Life (1859-60). Despite the physiological materiality of its subject, Lewes's text often discusses states of life that defy clear-cut classification. The process of human aging is a particularly confounding...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 377 - 387 |
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