Mario Praz and Biedermeier

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 24 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 G. H. Ford, [review of The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction], Modern Philology, 54 (1957), 215-16. Praz defines Biedermeier as "both a style and a conception of the world," but he nearly always uses the term in the latter sense, to refer to "the whole bourgeois Weltanschauang" (The Hero in Eclipse, p. 118)

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