James, Bulwer-Lytton, and Ut Pictura Poesis -- a Bibliography

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 3 to Chapter 4 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Henry James, "The Art of Fiction," in Partial Portraits (1888; rpt. New York: Haskell House, 1968), p. 378. Cf. Bulwer-Lytton in his 1843 preface to The Last of the Barons: "To my mind, a writer should sit down to compose a fiction as a painter prepares to compose a picture"; quoted by Richard Stang, The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870, p. 12.

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