A Victorian muse
Subtitle: the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature
By: Julia Straub.
Series: Continuum literary studies series; Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780826445896
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Characters -- Beatrice Portinari; Portinari, Beatrice, -- 1266-1290 -- In literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Symbolism in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Beatrice's Victorian afterlife; title: Seeing Beatrice: the visualization of Beatrice in Victorian culture; title: Looking for the real Beatrice: the Rossetti family; title: Ideal visions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti; title: Deconstruction of an ideal: George Eliot's Romola; title: Mourning a male Beatrice: Alfred Lord Tennyson's In memoriam; title: Construction of a new ideal: Walter Pater's 'diaphaneitè'; title: Conclusion.