The Afterlife of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone World

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction. The Anglophone Vita Nova: readers and translators, Jacob Blakesley and Federica Coluzzi

Part I. The birth and development of the English Vita nova

1. 'That Prayer-Book of Love': La Vita nuova and the Shelley-Byron Pisan Circle, 1819-22, Diego Saglia

2. Early English Lives of the Vita Nova: 1835-46, Nick Havely

3. Fair Beatrice: The Vita Nuova in Nineteenth-Century America, Kathleen Verduin

4. 'The Vita Nuova Will Yet Have American Successors': Translating Dante in Nineteenth-Century New England, Igor Candido

5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The New Life, Fabio Camilletti

6. Intermedial Configurations in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Reception of the Vita Nuova, Julia Straub

7. The Vita nova in the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Translations, Editions and Commentary, 1893-1906, Federica Coluzzi

Part II. The English Vita nova between Modernism and New American Poetry

8. The Secretest Chamber of the Heart: The Vita nova in British and American Modernism, Teresa Prudente

9. 'A fraternity of poets':The reception of Dante and the Vita Nuova in the San Francisco Renaissance, Valentina Mele

Part III. The resurgence of the English Vita nova: from the 1950s to the Digital Turn

10. Between concatenatio pulcra and the 'Tyranny of Rhyme': Translating Dante's libello, Daragh O'Connell

11. Contemporary Translations of the Vita Nuova: Cervigni/Vasta, Frisardi and Slavitt, Ronald M. De Rooy

12. Re-reading Dante's Vita nova in Anglophone Contexts, David Bowe

Appendix 1. The Vita nova 'a l'altro polo', Emma Louise Barlow

Appendix 2. For an Editorial History of Dante's Vita nova, Laura Banella

Bibliography

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