In Heinrich Heine’s mythological oeuvre, Diana emerges as the goddess in exile par excellence. She is conceived not only as a surviving figure, bound to the historical processes of concealment, demonisation, and persecution of pagan antiquity, but also as a renaissant presence, able to resist these dynamics through the vitality of a nature that remains unburied, never wholly repressed. Tracing Diana’s transformations across cultural, literary, and visual traditions from East to West, this monograph provides the first sustained account of Heine’s reworking of the myth of Diana. It moves from his mythographic pursuit of the «last traces of paganism within a Christianised modern world» to his remarkably original retellings of Diana’s myth culminating in Paris «the Capital of the 19th».
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University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4271-2597
Book Title
La Dea Diana di Heine
Book Subtitle
Sopravvivenza e rinascenza del mito nella Parigi del XIX secolo
Authors
Arianna Amatruda
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
348
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0969-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0968-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0969-4
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0970-0
Series Title
Premio Tesi di Dottorato Città di Firenze
Series ISSN
3103-3881
Series E-ISSN
3103-3989