Note 5 to Chapter 1 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
See Mario Praz, The Hero in Eclipse and Mnemosyne: The Parallel between Literature and the Visual Arts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974); Wylie Sypher, Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature 1400-1700 (New York: Doubleday, 1955) and Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature (New York: Vintage Books, 1960); and Jean Hagstrum, The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).
For a method that is similar to Praz's and Sypher's, though more telegraphic in its exposition, see Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (New York: Harper & Row, 1968). See also Helmut A. Hatzfield, Literature through Art: A New Approach to French Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1952).
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