Eliot's theological distaste -- bibliographical materials

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 21 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.

Theological distaste was a common feature of the mid-Victorian reaction to both the Nazarenes and the Pre-Raphaelites; see Francis Haskell, Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion, and Collecting in England and France (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976), pp. 49-57, and the review by E. H. Gombrich, The Times Literary Supplement, 27 February 1976, pp. 210-11.

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