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A Victorian muse : the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature /
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 contex...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 sh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441110718 1441110712 9781441192295 1441192298 1282452819 9781282452817 9781474211246 1474211240 1441180680 9781441180681 |