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Groundbreaking, erudite and interdisciplinary volume on the influence of Dante throughout the Victorian period

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'Ambitious and compendious in range and with a fearless confidence in summarising complex movements in literary history. One is sometimes awestruck by the extent of Milbank's knowledge and the scope of her reading.' Steve Ellis, University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I History
1. The early nineteenth century: Dante and Milton among the Whigs
2. Ruskin and Dante: Centrality and de-centring
3. Dante and the Victorian distancing of history
Part II Nationalism
4. Anello Aureo: The risorgimento and English poetry
5. George Eliot, Dante and Nationalist Aspiration
Part III Aesthetics
6. The Quest of the Historical Beatrice
7. 'Drawn Within the Circle': Uses of allegory by the Rossetti family
8. Moral luck in the second circle: Dante, Francesca and the Victorian fate of tragedy
Part IV Unreal Cities
9. Life after death and the hell of this world
10. No mans land: Dante between the Victorians and the Modernists

Dante and the Victorians

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 10 January 2009
      ISBN-13 9780719081231
      978-0719081231
      ISBN-10 0719081238

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Groundbreaking, erudite and interdisciplinary volume on the influence of Dante throughout the Victorian period

      Trade Review
      'Ambitious and compendious in range and with a fearless confidence in summarising complex movements in literary history. One is sometimes awestruck by the extent of Milbank's knowledge and the scope of her reading.' Steve Ellis, University of Birmingham

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Part I History
      1. The early nineteenth century: Dante and Milton among the Whigs
      2. Ruskin and Dante: Centrality and de-centring
      3. Dante and the Victorian distancing of history
      Part II Nationalism
      4. Anello Aureo: The risorgimento and English poetry
      5. George Eliot, Dante and Nationalist Aspiration
      Part III Aesthetics
      6. The Quest of the Historical Beatrice
      7. 'Drawn Within the Circle': Uses of allegory by the Rossetti family
      8. Moral luck in the second circle: Dante, Francesca and the Victorian fate of tragedy
      Part IV Unreal Cities
      9. Life after death and the hell of this world
      10. No mans land: Dante between the Victorians and the Modernists

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