Fieldingesque branch of the pictorial tradition which came to George Eliot through Scott

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico


Note 28 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.

On Fielding's pictorialism, see Sean Shesgreen, Literary Portraits in the Novels of Henry Fielding (De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1972) and Martin C. Battestin, The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), pp. 179-92.

On Scott's pictorialism, see J. D. W. Murdoch, "Scott, Pictures, and Painters," Modern Language Review, 67 (1972), 31-43, and Marcia Allentuck, "Scott and the Picturesque: Afforestation and History," in Scott Bicentenary Essays, ed. Alan Bell (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1973),pp. 188-98.


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