Note 21 to Chapter 9 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 J. Hillis Miller and David Borowitz, Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1971), pp. 42-53, and Ronald Paulson, "The Tradition of Comic Illustration from Hogarth to Cruikshank," in Patten, ed., George Cruikshank: A Revaluation, pp. 36-37. Despite these reminders, a simplistic criterion of fidelity to the text remains surprisingly tenacious in critical discussions of English and American literary illustration; see, for example, Nevius, Cooper's Landscapes, pp. 113-23.
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