| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Works Frequently Cited; Introduction; Chapter One Typological Interpretation in the Victorian Period; Chapter Two The Smitten Rock; Chapter Three Typology in Fiction and Non-Fiction; Chapter Four Typology in the Visual Arts; Chapter Five Political Types; Chapter Six Typological Structures: The Examples of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Chapter Seven The Pisgah Sight -- Typological Structure and Typological Image; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 way in which the average English believer learned to read their Bible in terms of the types and shadows of Christ, the various ways in which Victorian poetry and hymns employed certain imagery, and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts, English -- 19th century
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Typology (Theology) in art.
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Arts and religion -- England
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Arts and religion
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Arts, English
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Typology (Theology) in art
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317634966 |
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1317634969 |
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