This document combines notes 13 and 14 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.
See Fletcher, "Some Types and Emblems in Victorian Poetry," pp. 679-81, and Ziolkowski, Fictional Transfigurations, pp. 7, 49-54.
One typological symbolism in the Pre-Raphaelites, see George P. Landow, "William Holman Hunt's 'The Shadow of Death,"' Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 55 (1972), 197-239; Herbert Sussman, "Hunt, Ruskin, and 'The Scapegoat,"' Victorian Studies, 12 (1969), 83-90; and John Dixon Hunt, "The Poetry of Distance: Tennyson's Idylls of the King," in Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bradbury and D. J. Palmer (London: Edward Arnold, 1972), p. 108. For uses of typology in Victorian poetry, see Landow, "Moses Striking the Rock: Typological Symbolism in Victorian Poetry," in Miner, ed., Literary Uses of Typology, pp. 315-44 [full text of expanded versioon]; and Jerome Bump, "Hopkins' Imagery and Medievalist Poetics," Victorian Poetry, 15 (1977), 99-119.
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