| Description |
1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations. |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Characters -- Beatrice Portinari.
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Portinari, Beatrice, 1266-1290 -- In literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Symbolism in literature.
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Women in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Straub, Julia. Victorian muse. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826445896 (DLC) 2010275281 (OCoLC)310401922 |
| ISBN |
9781441110718 (electronic bk.) |
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1441110712 (electronic bk.) |
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