Eliot, Ruskin, and the Picturesque

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 41 to Chapter 8 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 the excellent discussions of Ruskin's conception of the picturesque in Landow, The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, pp. 222-38 [text], and Hewison, John Ruskin, pp. 32-53. See also John Alford, "Romanticism via Ruskin," Art News, 42 (December 1943), 11-13.

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