{"product_id":"dante-and-the-victorians-alison-milbank-9780719081231","title":"Dante and the Victorians","description":"In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also builds towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book provides not only an authoritative introduction to these important cultural themes, but also a re-reading of the genealogy of literature in the modern period. Instead of the Victorian realism challenged by Modernist symbolism's attempts to transcend linear time, Milbank offers us a contrary, continuous 'Danteism'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor both the Victorians and the Modernists Dante is the first writer to historicise, fictionalise and humanise the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDante and the Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Milbank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0719081238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780719081231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Alison Milbank","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925740847359,"sku":"9780719081231","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5089ef46-13b3-47f1-b591-9fa660011200.jpg?v=1681079075","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dante-and-the-victorians-alison-milbank-9780719081231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}