Spatial Form in Literature

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 39 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.

See Joseph Frank, "Spatial Form in Modern Literature," in Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary Judgment, ed. Mark Schorer, Josephine Miles, Gordon McKenzie (New York:Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1958), pp. 379-92. An interesting modification of Frank's theory is proposed by Ellen Stewart Spangler in "The Book As Image: Medieval Form in the Modern Spatialized Novel of Marcel Proust and His Contemporaries," Diss. New Mexico 1975.

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