American Dantes : traditions, translations, transformations / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barański, Zygmunt G., editor.

Cachey, T. J. (Theodore J.), editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation--United States--History.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Italian literature--United States--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Civil Rights and Civil War: American Dantes / David Wallace

A star unlike Dante and the American Transcendentalists / Laura Dassow Walls

The Divine Comedy as an American Civil War Epic / Joshua Matthews

Abolitionist, Confederate, Indigenous Dantes in Nineteenth-Century America / Dennis Looney

"All the verities mundane and spiritual": Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete and Dante / Kathleen C. Boyle

"Now was your semblance made like until this?": Dante's face in America / Kathleen Verduin

Recollecting Dante collecting: An American pilgrimage / Christian Y. Dupont

"In good faith": From Dante's first American poet-translator, Thomas William Parsons, to Sandow Birk, Marcus Sanders, and Mary Jo Bang / Kristina M. Olson

Dante and T. S. Eliot: Desire and form / Henry Weinfield

Between Dante and Whitman: Robert Duncan's "Dante Etudes," / Stephen Fredman

Dante, jazz, and the Black Radical Tradition / Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg

"The lantern of the world rises to mortals by varied paths": Paul Laffoley (1935-2015) and Dante / Arielle Saiber

Nel Mezzo del Cammin: Finding a "Spiritual" Dante in American religious culture / Peter S. Hawkins

Notes

Bibliography

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780268210373 (electronic bk.)

0268210373 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032982435

CIPO000271711

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.