Title: Dante and Eliot
Subtitle: An Aura Beyond Time
Subject Classification:  Literature and Literary Criticism, Religion and Faith, Philosophy  
BIC Classification: DSC, DSBH, DCF
BISAC Classification: LIT004200, LIT024040, LIT006000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-210-2
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-211-9

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Description

This book reconsiders T. S. Eliot’s engagement with Dante by placing it in dialogue with Baudelaire. It argues that, while Baudelaire provides Eliot with a language for representing the spiritual desolation of modernity, Dante offers a paradigm through which that desolation can be transformed into a quest for meaning and redemption. Focusing particularly on The Waste Land, the study examines how Dantean echoes and allusions turn the modern city into a contemporary infernal landscape while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of another journey. Rather than treating Dante as a literary source for Eliot, the author presents him as the counterpoint to Baudelaire, and as a crucial presence in Eliot’s movement from fragmentation and spiritual paralysis towards order, renewal, and transcendence.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Paola Tonussi is an Italian scholar and writer specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She is the author of acclaimed monographs on Emily Brontë, the War Poets, and Rupert Brooke, and has published widely in academic journals on Romanticism and Modernism. She teaches English Literature at Fondazione Toniolo in Verona, Italy.

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