A Victorian muse : the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Straub, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Characters > Beatrice Portinari.
Portinari, Beatrice, > 1266-1290 > In literature.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321
Portinari, Beatrice, > 1266-1290
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Symbolism in literature.
Women in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Symbolisme dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Literature
Symbolism in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Beatrice's Victorian afterlife
  • Seeing Beatrice: the visualization of Beatrice in Victorian culture
  • Looking for the real Beatrice: the Rossetti family
  • Ideal visions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
  • Deconstruction of an ideal: George Eliot's Romola
  • Mourning a male Beatrice: Alfred Lord Tennyson's In memoriam
  • Construction of a new ideal: Walter Pater's 'diaphaneitè'
  • Conclusion.

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