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Dante and the Victorians (Paperback, New)
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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 historicise, fictionalise
and humanise 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. Dante and the
Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the
reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language
and culture. -- .
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