A Victorian muse :: the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature /

The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This study looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contex...

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1. Verfasser: Straub, Julia
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies.
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Zusammenfassung:The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This study looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contexts. Focusing on literary representations and selected examples from the visual arts, this book examines works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Walter Pater as well as by John Ruskin, Maria Rossetti and Arthur Henry Hallam. Julia Straub's analysis sh.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index.
ISBN:9781441110718
1441110712
9781441192295
1441192298
1282452819
9781282452817
9781474211246
1474211240
1441180680
9781441180681

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