Abstract
<jats:p xml:lang="en">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». Century».</jats:p>