George Eliot's Hawthorne's Marble FaunHugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico


Note 22 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.

See Paul Brodtkorb, "Art Allegory in The Marble Faun," Publications of the Modern Language Association, 77 (1962), 254-67; Gary Scrimgeour, "rhe Marble Faun: Hawthorne's Faery Land," American Literature, 36 (1964), 271-87; Spencer Hall, "Beatrice Cenci: Symbol and Vision in The Marble Faun," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 25 (1970), 85-95; Judith Kaufman Budz, "Cherubs and Humblebees: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the X Visual Arts," Criticism, 17 (1975), 168-81; Rita K. Gollin, "Painting and Character in The Marble Faun," Emerson Society Quarterly, 21 (1975), 1-10; and Meyers, Painting and the Novel, pp. 6-18.


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