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Dante and the Victorians [Hardcover]

Alison Milbank (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: 29 Oct 1998 | ISBN-10: 071903700X | ISBN-13: 978-0719037009

In this text 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 topic allows her to reconfigure the British 19th century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also build 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 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, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent.

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Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press (29 Oct 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 071903700X
ISBN-13: 978-0719037009
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,357,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Ambitious and compendious in range and with a fearless confidence in summarising complex movements in literary history. One is sometimes awestruck by the extent of Milbank's knowledge and the scope of her reading.' --Steve Ellis, University of Birmingham --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Alison Milbank is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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