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Tasso's Art and Afterlives

Tasso's Art and Afterlives


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This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death in 1595 to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing predominantly on the impact of his once famous epic poem Gerusalemme liberata across a broad spectrum of arts, it aims to stimulate a revival of interest in an undeservedly neglected poetic masterpiece and its author, more than fifty years after the last book-length account of the poet in English.

Tasso's poem is remembered in Anglophone criticism today, if at all, as a principal model for the celebrated Bower of Bliss episode in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a complex literary appropriation which this study re-appraises thoroughly, in relation to both previously undetected contemporary English poetic responses to Tasso's enchantress Armida, as in Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond, and visual representations of the episode across Europe. The book also traces the reception in England of notable seventeenth-century depictions of scenes from Tasso by Van Dyck and Poussin, and explores the Italian poem's prominent role in the development of opera on the London stage, in works by Dennis and Handel. A second strand focuses on the numerous English responses to Tasso's troubled life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, biographical and literary, exemplified in Byron's memorable impersonation of the poet's voice in The Lament of Tasso.

The book will appeal to scholars of the early modern period and beyond with an interest in comparative literature, music, and the visual arts.


About the Author:
Jason Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in English (1500DS1700) at the University of Hull


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780719090882
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Gerusalemme liberata in England
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0719090881
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 468 gr


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