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Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals) Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought
By George P. Landow
Copyright 1980
290 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
282 Pages
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The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the secular culture of the Victorian age: its art, literature and thought. George Landow considers the... Read more
Preface; Works Frequently Cited; Introduction; 1. Typological Interpretation in the Victorian Period 2. The Smitten Rock 3. Typology in Fiction and Non-Fiction 4. Typology in the Visual Arts 5. Political Types 6. Typological Structures: The Examples of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 7. The Pisgah Sight – Typological Structure and Typological Image; Notes; Index
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Authored by Landow, George P.
