The Woman in the Window -- a Romantic Motif (bibliographical materials)

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 66 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.

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See J. A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, "Fensterbilder: Motivketten in der europaischen Malerei," in Studien zur Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, No, Vl -- Beitrage zur Motivkunde des 19. Jahrhunderts (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1970), pp. 13-165; Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, p. 66; and Finke, German Painting, pp. 25-26, 87.

[Readers might also wish to consult the classic essay on the topic in English, Lorenz Eitner's "The Open Window and the Storm-tossed Boat: an Essay in the Iconography of Romanticism". Art Bulletin 37 (1959): 281-90. GPL.]

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