Bibiblical typology and characterization in Daniel Deronda

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 100 to Chapter 6 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Compare Shaffer, 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem, p. 250: "the main characters [in Daniel Deronda] are . . . consciously modelled on the historical and legendary figures of their religious literature, the Old Testament prophets, the Christian saints and martyrs, and not least Jesus himself."

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