Eliot's transformation of Christian motifs -- bibliographical materials

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 19 to Chapter 6 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.

For a nonpictorial example of George Eliot's transformation of Christian motifs, see U. C. Knoepflmacher's analysis of the secularized communion scenes in Adam Bede: "George Eliot, Feuerbach, and the Question of Criticism," Victorian Studies, 7 (1964), 306-09; rpt. Creeger, ed., George Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 79-85.

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