Note 23 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 Giovanni Giovannini, "Method in the Study of Literature in Its Relation to the Other Fine Arts," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 8 (1950), 185-95; John B. Bender, Spenser and Literary Pictorialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), pp. 18-20; H. James Jensen, The Muses' Concord: Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts in the Baroque Age (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976), pp. xiv-xv; and Merriman, "Parallel of the Arts," pp. 154, 160. Thus I cannot follow Viola Hopkins Winner when she argues that "Henry James's style is Mannerist in the same sense as Tintoretto's, and compares "James's often tortuous, involuted late style" to "Tintoretto's twisted lines and tormented restless forms"; see Henry James and the Visual Arts (Charlottesville; The University Press of Virginia, 1970), pp. 89-93. Surely the similarity here is more in the critic's adjectives than in the things compared.
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