George Eliot and the traditional language of the passions

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico


Note 6 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 Brewster Rogerson, "The Art of Painting the Passions," Journal of the History of Ideas, 14 (1953), 68-94; George Levitine, "The Influence of Lavater and Girodet's Expression des sentiments de l'ame," Art Bulletin, 36 (1954), 33-45; Wylie Sypher, "The Mechanics of Expression," in Four Stages of Renaissance Style, pp. 274-81; Alastair Smart, "Dramatic Gesture and Expression in the Age of Hogarth and Reynolds," Apollo, 82 (1965), 90-97; and Jensen, The Muses' Concord, pp. 102-08.


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