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  • Dante beyond influence

    Rethinking reception in Victorian literary culture

    Series series Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
    Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement. Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book conducts a material and book-historical inquiry into the formation ... Read more

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  • The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone World

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Translation and Reception History

    Series series Routledge Studies in Literary Translation
    This volume provides the first systematic study of the translation and reception of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone world, reconstructing for the first time the contexts and genesis of its English-language afterlife from the early nineteenth century to the present day.Dante is one of the foremost authors of the Western canon, and his Vita Nova has been repeatedly translated into English over ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural ... Read more

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  • The Venice Myth

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