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Dante and the Victorians Author: Alison Milbank

ISBN: 9780719081231 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 17 January 2010 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 Description: 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 historicize, fictionalize and humanize the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularized fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. "Dante and the Victorians

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