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Zusatztext The book coincides with a great wave of reception studies exploring the uses and abuses of the past over the course of time, but it is much more than a cultural history of Dante's Anglo-Saxon afterlife. Tracing the physical travels of books - where they originated and arrived - Havely aims to reconstruct the material geography of Dante's anglicization: from Milan to Mumbai, from Berlin to Cape Town. Informationen zum Autor Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York, where he taught courses on Dante and medieval literature for over thirty years. His main research interests have been in Anglo-Italian contacts from the Middle Ages onwards, and his publications include Dante's Modern Afterlife (1998), Dante (Blackwell Guides to Literature) (2007) and Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012). He has received research awards from the AHRB and the Leverhulme Trust, and his next project, supported by a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, will be on travel and travellers in the Tuscan Apennines. Klappentext Dante's British Public examines the many and various ways in which the work of the leading poet of medieval Europe has been acquired, represented, and discussed by British readers over the last six centuries. Zusammenfassung This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid and detailed case studies to record and place in context some of the wider conversations about and appropriations of Dante that developed in Britain across more than six centuries, as access to his work extended and diversified. Much of the evidence is based on previously unpublished material in (for example) letters, journals, annotations and inventories and is drawn from archives in the UK and across the world, from Milan to Mumbai and from Berlin to Cape Town. Throughout, the role of Anglo-Italian cultural contacts and intermediaries in shaping the public understanding of Dante in Britain is given prominence - from clerics and merchants around Chaucer's time, through itinerant scholars, collectors and tourists in the early modern period, to the exiles and expatriates of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The final chapter brings the story up to the present, showing how the poet's work has been seen (from the fourteenth century onwards) as accessible to 'the many', and demonstrating some of the means by which Dante has reached a yet wider British public over the past century, particularly through translation, illustration, and various forms of performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Prologue: A Wandering Comedy 1: Around Chaucer: Clerics, Comedy, and Monarchy 2: The 'Goodly Maker': Conscripting Dante in Henrician England 3: 'The Hungry Sheep': Protestant and Catholic Readings, 1556-1637 4: 'Few can understand him': Reputation, Ownership, Reading, c. 1600 - c. 1800 5: Expatriate Poetics: Foscolo and the British Public 6: Seeing the Seer: Victorian Visions 7: Dominions, Possessions, Dispersals: British Dantes Abroad, c. 1820 - 1882 8: Widening Circles, 1320-2013 Appendix 1: Chronology, c. 1320-2013 Appendix 2: New/ Old Dantes, c. 1600 - c. 1700 Bibliography ...
