Dante beyond influence : rethinking reception in Victorian literary culture /

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement. Unearthing previously unseen manuscrip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coluzzi, Federica (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2021.
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv29mvt2m
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Reading Gladstone reading Dante : marginal annotation as private commentary
  • 3. Ephemeral Dante : Matthew Arnold's criticism in Victorian periodicals
  • 4. The critic and the scholar : Christina and Maria Francesca Rossetti's Dante sisterhood
  • 5. 'Everyman's Dante' : Philip H. Wicksteed and Victorian mass readerships
  • 6. Academic networks: Dante studies in Victorian Britain
  • 7. Conclusion : from grande amore to lungo studio : rethinking the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history.