George Eliot and the fetish of realism

11 This is a common strand in writings by other Victorian realists, most notably Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, and Arthur Hugh Clough.

11 Stephen Greenblatt describes a similar historical incident from the Renaissance, the defacement of devils in Paolo Uccello's Profanation of the Host; see Gallagher and Greenblatt, Practicing New Historicism 95-96.

11 In a remarkable discussion, Zizek touches on how the ambivalence expressed in the phrase "as ir' relates to "the formula of fetishistic disavowal: 'I know very well, but still see Sublime 18.

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