Note 28 to Chapter 4 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.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 2d ed. (London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1759), pt. II, sec. iv, p. 108 (rpt. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1971). A neatly bound copy of Burke's essay ornaments the bookcase of Miss Linnet in "Janet's Repentance" (3:71). For the influence of Burke's Enquiry upon Hardy, see S. F. Johnson, "Hardy and Burke's 'Sublime,"' 29 in Style in Prose Fichon, ed. Harold C. Martin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), pp. 55-86.
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