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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
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.
