George Eliot and the tradition of the literary portrait

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 2 to Chapter 5 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 the tradition of the literary portrait, see Blanchard W. Bates, Literary Portraiture in the Historical Narrative of the French Renaissance (New York: G. T. Stechert, 1945); Alice M. Colby, The Portrait in Twelfth-Century French Literature (Geneva: Droz, 1965); and Shesgreen, Literary Portraits in the Novels of Henry Fielding.

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