Ludwig Feuerbach on literary pictorialism -- bibliographical materials

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 9 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.

Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, trans. Marian Evans (London: John Chapman, 1854), p. 74. Feuerbach wrote: "Den sinnlichen und gemuthlichen Menschen beherrscht und beseligt nur das Bild. Die bildliche, die gemuthliche, die sinnliche Vernunft ist die Phantasie"; see Das Wesen Christentums (Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1841), p. 89.

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