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George Eliot and John Everett Millais: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Realism.

In an effort to recover the extensive cross-fertilization between literary and visual representation in the Victorian period, I discuss the possible influence of John Everett Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) on George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859). Bringing to bear on this connectio...

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Published in:Victorian Studies Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 361 - 390
Main Author: Nord, Deborah Epstein
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Spring2018
Subjects:
Victorian Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
Realism
Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1829-1896
Protestant history
Radicalism
Nineteenth century
History
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