Lewes on modified realism

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico


Note 9 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.

Lewes, "Hegel's Philosophy of Art," British and Foreign Review, vol. 13 (1842); quoted from Kaminsky, ed., Literary Criticism of George Henry Lewes, p. 49. Coleridge, Shakespearian Criticism, ed. T. M. Raysor (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930), II, 134; I am indebted to Roy Park's work for the quotation from Coleridge.


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