Dante and the Victorians

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Dante and the Victorians

Alison Milbank

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998

  • : hbk

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Bibliographical references: p. 241-272

Includes index

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In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also builds towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. The book provides not only an authoritative introduction to these important cultural themes, but also a re-reading of the genealogy of literature in the modern period. Instead of the Victorian realism challenged by Modernist symbolism's attempts to transcend linear time, Milbank offers us a contrary, continuous 'Danteism'. For both the Victorians and the Modernists Dante is the first writer to historicise, fictionalise and humanise the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. Dante and the Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language and culture. -- .

目次

  • Introduction: "The Central Man". Part I History: the early 19th century - Dante and Milton among the Whigs
  • Ruskin and Dante - centrality and de-centring
  • Dante and the Victorian distancing of history. Part II Nationalism: "Anello Aureo" - the Risorgimento and English poetry
  • George Eliot, Mazzini and nationalist aspiration. Part III Aesthtics: the quest of the historical Beatrice
  • "Drawn Within a Circle - uses of allegory by the Rossetti family
  • moral luck in the second circle - Francesca and the Victorian fate of tragedy. Part IV Unreal cities: life after death, and the hell of this world
  • no man's land - Dante between the Victorians and the moderninsts.

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