Dante in the Long Nineteenth CenturyNationality, Identity, and Appropriation

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List of Plates Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction 1. RISORGIMENTO: ITALIAN NATIONALITY AND IDENTITY 'Founders of Italian Literature': Dante, Petrarch. and National Identity in Ugo Foscolo Politics vs. Literature - The Myth of Dante and the Italian National Identity Dante and the Creation of the poeta vate in Nineteenth-Century Italy Reading Dante in Nineteenth-Century Italy 'The Holy Stone where Dante Sat': Memory and Oblivion Politics and Performance: Gustavo Modena's dantate 2. NATIONAL INTERESTS AND APPROPRIATIONS Dufau's La Mort d'Ugolin: Dante, Nationalism, and French Art, c.1800 Dante and Fabre D'Olivet: the Pilgrim Romeo and the Construction of an Occitan Chant Royal Dante and British Romantic Women Writers: Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture Dante's Beatrice and Victorian Gender Ideology 3. EMERGING POWERS Dante's Long Road to the German Library: Literary Reception from Early Romanticism to the Late Nineteenth Century Charles Eliot Norton and the Rationale for American Dante Studies Emerson, Dante, and American Nationalism Dante Abolitionist and Nationalist in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Cordelia Ray 4. RECOVERING/ RE-DEFINING IDENTITIES Lord Charlemont's Dante and Irish Culture: A Whig interpretation of Dante at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Dante and the Bengali Renaissance The Reception of Dante in Turkey through the Long Nineteenth Century EPILOGUE: DANTE AND EARLY ITALIAN CINEMA The 1911 Milano-Films Inferno and Italian Nationalism APPENDIX Dante and Nineteenth-Century Music (listing and selective bibliography) INDEX