Note 21 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.
Praz, Mnemosyne, p. 29. For other expressions of distrust, see John Dixon Hunt, "Preface" to Encounter: Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (London: Studio Vista, 1971), pp. 8-9; Jean Seznec, Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (Hull, Eng.: University of Hull Publications, 1963), pp. 4-5; and James D. Merriman, "The Parallel of the Arts: Some Misgivings and a Faint Affirmation," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 31 (1972), 153-64, 309-21.
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