The Revd Canon Professor Alison Milbank is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham where she teaches on the relation of religion and culture both historically and in the contemporary world and a trustee of Art+Christianity. She is Canon Theologian and Priest Vicar at Southwell Minster, where she leads on adult education but also engages in all aspects of ministry in a parish church cathedral. She is a co-founder of 'Save the Parish' and active in engaging audiences as diverse as English Heritage and the Ecclesiastical Law Society in its defence.
Introduction Part I History 1. The early nineteenth century: Dante and
Milton among the Whigs 2. Ruskin and Dante: Centrality and de-centring 3.
Dante and the Victorian distancing of history Part II Nationalism 4. Anello
Aureo: The risorgimento and English poetry 5. George Eliot, Dante and
Nationalist Aspiration Part III Aesthetics 6. The Quest of the Historical
Beatrice 7. 'Drawn Within the Circle': Uses of allegory by the Rossetti
family 8. Moral luck in the second circle: Dante, Francesca and the
Victorian fate of tragedy Part IV Unreal Cities 9. Life after death and the
hell of this world 10. No mans land: Dante between the Victorians and the
Modernists
