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. This study offers
fascinating insights into the Victorian reception of Dante by
exploring the powerful appeal of his muse.
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