Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals): by George P. Landow
By George P. Landow
The significance of typology within the research of early sleek literature has lengthy been authorised, but scholars of Victorian tradition have paid little consciousness to it. First released in 1980, this examine demonstrates how biblical typology, an it appears arcane interpretative mode, had profound results at the secular tradition of the Victorian age: its artwork, literature and notion. George Landow considers the way the common English believer realized to learn their Bible when it comes to the categories and shadows of Christ, many of the ways that Victorian poetry and hymns hired yes imagery, and using typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding bankruptcy, he investigates the rather complicated, and infrequently ironic, combos of typological photo and typological constitution.
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