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Nick Havely (ed .)
he nineteenth century saw the reinvention
of Dante as a Romantic and national
poet, his recognition as the canonical
‘central man of all the world’ and the Commedia’s
diffusion as a widely accessible text .
Addressing these aspects of Dante’s presence
during a key period of his modern reception,
this collection of essays draws upon a number
of papers given at the international conference
‘Dante in the Nineteenth Century’, held
at the University of York in July 2008, and
combines the work of established experts in
the field with that of younger scholars who
are breaking important new ground on the
subject . It is distinctive in concentrating on
the reception of Dante from Romanticism
through the cult of Beatrice and mid-century
criticism, translation and visual art, to the
development of scholarship and popularization
. The volume explores diverse nineteenthcentury
historical, intellectual, artistic and
literary contexts in the cultures of Italy,
France, the British Isles and the United States .
Contents: Nick Havely: Introduction •
Michael O’Neill: ‘Admirable for Conciseness
and Vigour’: Dante and English Romantic Poetry’s
Dealings with Epic • Timothy Webb:
Stories of Rimini: Leigh Hunt, Byron and the
Fate of Francesca • Nick Havely: Francesca
Franciosa: Exile, Language and History in Foscolo’s
Articles on Dante • Serena Trowbridge:
‘A Silent Heart’: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Monna
Innominata’ as a Reconstruction of Dante’s
Beatrice • Cristina Figueredo: Christina Rossetti’s
‘Monna Innominata’: Reflections in/
New
Dante in the Nineteenth Century
Reception, Canonicity, Popularization
Littérature comparée · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Comparative Literature
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
XII, 313 pp ., num . ill .
Cultural Interactions . Studies in the Relationship between the Arts . Vol . 19
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on Dante • Fabio Camilletti: Ninfa fiorentina:
The Falling of Beatrice from Florence to Modern
Metropolis • Alison Milbank: Dante,
Ruskin and Rossetti: Grotesque Realism •
Christoph Irmscher: Reading for our Delight:
Longfellow and Francesca • Aida Audeh: Rodin’s
Gates of Hell and Dante’s Divine Comedy:
The Literal and Allegorical in the Paolo
and Francesca Episode of Inferno 5 • Guyda
Armstrong: Nineteenth-Century Translations
and the Invention of Boccaccio-dantista
• Spencer Pearce: Dante and Psychology
in the Late Nineteenth Century • Elena Borelli:
Dante between Darwin and Freud: Giovanni
Pascoli’s Dantean Writings • James Robinson:
Purgatorio in the Portrait: Dante, Heterodoxy
and the Education of James Joyce • Anne Laurence:
Exploiting Dante: Dante and his Women
Popularizers, 1850-1910 .
niCk HaVely is Professor of English and
Related Literature at the University of York,
where he has taught courses on Dante for
over thirty years . He has also held teaching
posts at the University of Oxford and Cornell
University . His main research interests are
in late medieval literature and Anglo-Italian
literary relations from the Middle Ages onwards
. His work on Dante and his reception
includes a number of recent and forthcoming
monographs and collections of essays .
He is currently engaged on the study ‘Dante’s
Readers in the English-Speaking World, from
the fourteenth century to the present’, for
which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research
Fellowship in 2007-8 .
Gertrud Lehnert • Stephanie Siewert
(eds .)
Spaces of Desire –
Spaces of Transition
Space and Emotions
in Modern Literature
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 108 pp .
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n the last decade, the so called «spatial
turn» has produced a broad discussion of
space and spatiality in the social sciences, in
architecture and art, as well as in philosophy,
and also in literary criticism . The book focuses
on one aspect largely ignored by literary historians
as well as by theorists/historians of
space, that is, the constitutive interrelationship
of space and emotions . Departing from
a dynamic concept of space as the result of human
activities and perceptions, combined
with the phenomenological concept of space
possessing a specific atmosphere, we wish to
initiate a discussion of the specific emotional
and atmospheric qualities of «heterotopias»
in the Foucaultian sense, or « non-lieux » as
described by Marc Augé .
Contents: Gertrud Lehnert: Space and
Emotion in Modern Literature • Monika
Schmitz-Emans: Mirror and Labyrinth • Julia
Weber: «Im Hohlraum» – Excavating Narration?
Architectural Space, Perspective and (E)motion
in Kafka’s The Burrow (1924) • Massimo Fusillo:
The Railway Station as Heterotopia: between
Sacredness and Sexuality • Gertrud Lehnert:
Solitudes of Transition: Hotels (Marcel Proust
and Vicky Baum) • Ana Belén López Pérez: Holiday/Health
Resorts and Female Identity in
Early 20th Century Short Stories • Sandra
Poppe: Spaces of Anxiety in Modern Literature
• Stephanie Siewert: Looking into the
Dark Mirror: On Transnational Melancholy
in Meena Alexander’s Memoir Fault Lines
(2003) [1993] .
GertruD leHnert is Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of Potsdam
(Germany) . Her research focuses on space,
emotion, visual culture, gender studies, the
history of women’s poetry, and the theory and
history of fashion .
stepHanie siewert (MA) is a PhD candidate
in Comparative Literature at the University
of Potsdam, and a fellow of the Studienstiftung
des Deutschen Volkes . Her project focuses
on spaces of detention in literature and
the visual arts in the 20th and 21st centuries .
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