E-book
Dante's British public : readers and texts, from the fourteenth century to the present
Record details
- ISBN: 9780199212446
- ISBN: 0199212449
- ISBN: 9780199212446
- ISBN: 9780191789472
- ISBN: 9780191034374
- ISBN: 0199212449
- ISBN: 019178947X
- ISBN: 0191034371
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 355 pages)
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Computer data. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.20 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| Target Audience Note: | This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid and detailed case studies to record and place in context some of the wider conversations about and appropriations of Dante that developed in Britain across more than six centuries, as access to his work extended and diversified. Much of the evidence is based on previously unpublished material in (for example) letters, journals, annotations and inventories and is drawn from archives in the UK and across the world, from Milan to Mumbai and from Berlin to Cape Town. Throughout, the role of Anglo-Italian cultural contacts and intermediaries in shaping the public understanding of Dante in Britain is given prominence - from clerics and merchants around Chaucer's time, through itinerant scholars, collectors and tourists in the early modern period, to the exiles and expatriates of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The final chapter brings the story up to the present, showing how the poet's work has been seen (from the fourteenth century onwards) as accessible to 'the many', and demonstrating some of the means by which Dante has reached a yet wider British public over the past century, particularly through translation, illustration, and various forms of performance. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
| Source of Description Note: | PDF image (Ebsco, viewed August 26, 2014). |
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| Genre: | Electronic book. Electronic books. |
