George Eliot and the Visual Arts
- ISBN-10
- 0300022816
- ISBN-13
- 9780300022810
- Category
- Art and literature
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979-01-01
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Author
- Hugh Witemeyer
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