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Article: The Art of the Brontes.
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- Quadrant
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- January 1, 1998
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by Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars; Cambridge University Press, 1995, $49.95.
The interaction of the visual and the literary in Victorian art and writing has long been an object of study for historians of art and scholars of literature: the use of literary subjects from the present and the past -- by painters; illustrations to novels, often by artists of position and prestige; novels about artists (female as well as male); the use of art works in novels for moral or narrative purposes. There is also the question of the extent to which the Victorian artist's vision is shaped by the literary mode, for example, the dictum "every picture tells a story", and to ...