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American Dantes : traditions, translations, transformations / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature.
- The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Italian literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- American Dantes provides fresh perspectives on Dante's reception and cultural impact in the United States over the past two hundred years.American Dantes investigates the depth and breadth of Dante's American legacy from the early nineteenth century to the present.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Civil Rights and Civil War: American Dantes
- Two A Star Unlike: Dante and the American Transcendentalists
- Three The Divine Comedy as an American Civil War Epic
- Four Abolitionist, Confederate, Indigenous Dantes in Nineteenth-Century America
- Five "All the verities mundane and spiritual": Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete and Dante
- Six "Now was your semblance made like unto this?" Dante's Face in America
- Seven Recollecting Dante Collecting: An American Pilgrimage
- Eight "In good faith": From Dante's First American Poet-Translator, Thomas William Parsons, to Sandow Birk, Marcus Sanders, and Mary Jo Bang
- Nine Dante and T. S. Eliot: Desire and Form
- Ten Between Dante and Whitman: Robert Duncan's "Dante Études,"
- Eleven Dante, Jazz, and the Black Radical Tradition
- Twelve "The lantern of the world rises to mortals by varied paths": Paul Laffoley (1935-2015) and Dante
- Thirteen Nel Mezzo del Cammin: Finding a "Spiritual" Dante in American Religious Culture
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-268-21035-7
- 0-268-21037-3
- OCLC:
- 1535965096
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