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George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University

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Frontmatter

• Works Frequently Cited
• Preface

Introduction

One. Typological Interpretation in the Victorian Period

• How the Victorians learned to read the Bible for types and shadows of Christ
• Types: Historical, Legal, and Prophetical
• Images with the Stamp of God
• Type and Temporality
• The Reality of Types

Two. The Smitten Rock

Three. Typology in Fiction and Nonfiction

• Fiction
• Nonfiction: Autobiography and Sage-Writing

Four. Typology in the Visual Arts

• Typology and Ruskin's Theories of Symbolism
• Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents
• Joseph Durham's Striking the Rock
• Problems of Interpretation
• Word and Image -- Typological Uses of Genesis

Five. Political Types

• Introduction
• Applications to Church Politics
• Swinburne and Secularized Typology
• Secularized Typology in Working-Class Poet
• Thomas Carlyle

Six. Typological Structures: The Examples of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• "Yet hear my paradox": Hopkins's Typological Allusions
• "Life touching lips with immortality": Rossetti's Temporal Structures

Seven. The Pisgah Sight -- Typological Structure and Typological Image

• The Religious Context: Scripture, Interpretations, and Hymns
• Extended Versions
• The Pisgah Sight as an Allusive Device
• The Pisgah Sight as a Vision of Beauty
• Romantic and Modern Examples
• Swinburne's and Other Bitter Pisgah Sights

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Print version published 1980; web version 1998