Introduction: What do we talk about when we talk about Dante's reception?
1 Reading Gladstone reading Dante: Marginal annotation as private commentary
2 Ephemeral Dante: Matthew Arnold's criticism in Victorian periodicals
3 The critic and the scholar: Christina and Maria Francesca Rossetti's Dante sisterhood
4 'Everyman's Dante': Philip H. Wicksteed and Victorian mass readerships
5 Academic networks: Dante studies in Victorian Britain
Conclusion: From grande amore to lungo studio: rethinking the hermeneutic turn in reception history
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