UID:
almafu_9959227471302883
Format:
1 online resource (211 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4438-8747-1
Content:
Dante Alighieri and John Milton, two composers of vernacular epic poems, undoubtedly hold prominent positions in the literary canons of Italy and England respectively. Both authors have been made into universally important icons deeply engrained in the world's cultural memory; their importance, however, extends vastly beyond their mere literary and political influence. This anthology explores the synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante and Milton as such culturally produced icons.The main focus of the contributions in this collection is the production of cultural memory regarding Dant
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Envisioning Visionaries: The Cultural Construction of Dante and Milton / Christoph Lehner and Christoph Singer -- "Swaggering in the fore-top of the State": Milton, the Prelates and the Protestant Dante, from Lycidas to Of Reformation / Nick Havely -- On His Blindness: Milton's Reputation in the Nineteenth Century / Andrew Sanders -- Milton and the Question of National Identity: Political Reality and Ideal Conceptions / Eliza Richter -- Milton in Material Culture / Christoph Ehland -- "Unteaches conquer'd Nations to Rebel, by Singing, how their Stubborn Parents fell": Exploring and Exporting John Milton in the Long Eighteenth Century / Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- "Heretics in the Truth": Miltonic Echoes in Edward Young's Conjectures on Original Composition / Christoph Singer -- "With Fry Innumerable Swarm": Reading Milton as Intertext in Nineteenth-Century Popular Science / Alison E. Martin -- Envisioning the Visionary: Poetic Quality and Allegorical Language in T.S. Eliot's Dante Criticism / Christoph Lehner -- "Denti Alligator" and "the humours of Milltown": The Canonical Comedy of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake / Zachary Leszek Kell -- From Fallen Angel to Dark Lord: Traces of Dante and Milton in the Harry Potter Series / Elizabeth E.J. Gilbert.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-8575-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
