Note 3 to Chapter 2 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 Eliot and Thackeray, see Richards, "The Use of the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth-Century Novel," pp. 22-90, 137-70, 563-67, 575. On James, see F. O. Matthiessen, "James and the Plastic Arts," Kenyon Review, 5 (1943), 535-50; Henry James, The Painter's Eye; Edwin T. Bowden, The Themes of Henry James: A System of Observation through the Visual Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956); Robert L. Gale, "Art Imagery in Henry James's Fiction," American Literature, 29 (1957), 47-63; Bernard Richards, "Henry James's Use of the Visual Arts," Diss. Oxford 1965; Winner, Henry James and the Visual Arts; and Susan P. Ward, "Painting and Europe in The American,"American Literature, 46 (1975), 566-74.
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