Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals) write by George P. Landow. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the secular culture of the Victorian age: its art, literature and thought. George Landow considers the way in which the average English believer learned to read their Bible in terms of the types and shadows of Christ, the various ways in which Victorian poetry and hymns employed certain imagery, and the use of typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding chapter, he investigates the particularly complex, and often ironic, combinations of typological image and typological structure.
Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals)
Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) write by George P. Landow. This book was released on 2015-06-11. Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Writing in the 1970s, Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting on the first voyage to the moon. Yet both Arnold and Mailer, George P. Landow asserts in this book, are sages, writers in the nonfiction prose form of secular prophecy, a genre richly influenced by the episodic structures and harshly critical attitudes toward society which characterize Old Testament prophetic literature. In this book, first published in 1986, Landow defines the genre by exploring its rhetoric, an approach that enables him to illuminate the relationships among representative works of the nineteenth century to one another, to biblical, oratorical, and homiletic traditions, and to such twentieth-century writers as Lawrence, Didion, and Mailer.
New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)
New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) write by Robert Hewison. This book was released on 2014-11-13. New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of Ruskin’s work and influence is now a feature of several critical disciplines. New Approaches to Ruskin, first published in 1981, reflects this, gathering some of the most distinguished writers on Ruskin and joining them with others who have undertaken significant research in the field of Ruskin studies. The authors were all specially commissioned for this volume and were chosen to represent as wide a variety of approaches as possible to this key figure of nineteenth-century culture. This book is ideal for students of art history.
Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals)
Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) write by George P. Landow. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two hundred years has resulted in a plethora of metaphors associated with moments of human crisis. Avalanches and volcanoes emerge as focal images in an aesthetic that concerns itself increasingly with the vulnerability of humanity. However, it is in the transformation of traditional religious images that the ideas of the vacant universe are most dramatically presented. Associated with this central idea are ironic transformations of other images that formerly had been associated with Christianity as paradigms of belief: the journey of Odysseus, the rainbow of the Covenant and Robinson Crusoe. Combining close textual analysis with a theory of literary iconology, this fascinating reissue will be of particular value to students with an interest in literary images, and literary and cultural history.
William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals)
William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals) write by George P. Landow. This book was released on 2015-06-11. William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural typology – the method of finding anticipations of Christ in Hebrew history – could produce an ideal art that would solve the problems of Victorian painting. According to Hunt, this elaborate symbolism could simultaneously avoid the dangers of materialism inherent in a realistic style, the dead conventionalism of academic art, and the sentimentality of much contemporary painting. George Landow examines Hunt’s work in the context of this argument and, drawing on much unknown or previously inaccessible material, shows how he used texts, frames, and symbols to create a complex art of mediation that became increasingly visionary as the artist grew older. This book is ideal for students of art history.
