Dante and Milton : envisioned visionaries / edited by Christoph Singer and Christoph Lehner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singer, Christoph, editor.

Lehner, Christoph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Milton, John.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Dante Alighieri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8747-1

OCLC:

935642561