Note 40 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 Romola and Paterian aestheticism, see David J. DeLaura, "Romola and the Origin of the Paterian View of Life," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 21 (1966), 225-33; Donald L. Hill, "Pater's Debt to Romola," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 22 (1968), 361-77; Redinger, George Eliot, p. 452; and Jerome Bump, "Hopkins, Pater, and Medievalism," Victorian Newsletter, 50 (Fall 1976), 10-15.
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