Note 43 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 Thomas Love Peacock, Works, ed. Henry Cole (London, 1875), 1, 213; Hunt and Willis, The Genius of the Place, pp. 376-79; Kingsley, Yeast, chapter 3; Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape with Pictures in Words by Tom Taylor (London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863), no. 18; Conrad, The Victorian Treasure-House, pp. 78-79; William D. Tempelman, "Thoreau, Moralist of the Picturesque," Publications of the Modern Language Association, 47 (1932), 879, 884; and Leo Levy, "Picturesque Style in The House of the Seven Gables,"New England Quarterly, 39(1966), 150.
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