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A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature

A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Straub, Julia
Julia Straub

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Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441192298
ISBN13: 9781441192295
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Jan 5 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 shows how the various representations of Beatrice in literature and in the visual arts reflect in meaningful ways some of the central social and aesthetic concerns of the Victorian period, most importantly its discourse on gender.

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