Dante's British Public
Readers and Texts, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present
Nick Havely
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prologue: A Wandering Comedy
1. Around Chaucer: Clerics, Comedy, and Monarchy
2. The 'Goodly Maker': Conscripting Dante in Henrician England
3. 'The Hungry Sheep': Protestant and Catholic Readings, 1556-1637
4. 'Few can understand him': Reputation, Ownership, Reading, c. 1600 - c. 1800
5. Expatriate Poetics: Foscolo and the British Public
6. Seeing the Seer: Victorian Visions
7. Dominions, Possessions, Dispersals: British Dantes Abroad, c. 1820 - 1882
8. Widening Circles, 1320-2013
Appendix 1: Chronology, c. 1320-2013
Appendix 2: New/ Old Dantes, c. 1600 - c. 1700
Bibliography