Note 6 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 Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1975), pp. 42-43, 64-66, 13641, 170-76. On the gradual liberation of typological signification from its original biblical applications, see Paul J. Korshin, "The Development of Abstracted Typology in England, 1650-1820," in Literary Uses of Typology from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Earl Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp. 147-203. On the "tradition of secularized and immediate typology"in nineteenth-century English literature in general and George Eliot in particular, see John R. Reed, Victorian Conventions, pp. 5, 23-24, 38-39.
[Material available since the publication of George Eliot and the Visual Arts: for secularized typology in the Victoran period, see chapter 5 in George P. Landow, Victorian Types and the same book's discussions of Rossetti and Swinburne. GPL.]
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