George Eliot and Music

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico


Note 2 to Chapter 3 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 George Eliot and music, see Sullivan, "George Eliot and the Fine Arts," pp. 6-20, 38-68 and "Music and Musical Allusion in The Mill on the Floss," Criticism, 16 (1974), 232-46; Shirley F. Levenson, "The Use of Music in Daniel Deronda," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 24 (1969), 317-34; Ruby V. Redinger, George Eliot: The Emergent Self (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), pp. 87-90;and Marghanita Laski,"The Music of Daniel Deronda," The Listener, 96 (23 September 1976), 373-74.


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