Typological characterization in Romola -- bibliographical materials

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 8 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.

On typological characterization in Romola, see Wiesenfarth, George Eliot's Mythmaking, p. 149.

See also Howard Rodee's discussion of the angel motif in Victorian paintings of charity scenes, "Scenes of Rural and Urban Poverty in Victorian Painting and Their Development, 1850-1900," Diss. Columbia 1975, p. 53.

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