Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals): Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought - Softcover

Landow, George P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138796174 ISBN 13: 9781138796171

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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 the use of typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding chapter, he investigates the particularly complex, and often ironic, combinations of typological image and typological structure.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138796174
• ISBN 13: 9781138796171
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290