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A Victorian Muse makes an important contribution to research on the nineteenth-century reception of Dante. Julia Straub's approach combines theoretical sophistication with clarity of exposition and wide-ranging scholarship. Her work will also be of value to those interested in gender issues, aesthetics and relationships between media during the period. (Nick Havely, Professor of English & Related Literature, University of York, UK; editor of Dante's Modern Afterlife) If Dante is 'the central man of all the world' as Ruskin argued, then Beatrice, as Julia Straub so beautifully argues, is the central woman, a figure who embodies the idealisations of Victorian culture, but also their critique. The most arresting chapter for me was that on Walter Pater, where Straub demonstrates that a study of Beatrice's redemptive femininity actually allows the articulation of a specifically masculine mode of creativity. (Alison Milbank, Associate Professor, Department of Theology, The University of Nottingham, UK)

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Julia Straub is Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

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