Description
In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice窶冱 appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 A 窶弄ore Beloved Existence窶�: From Shakespeare窶冱 窶老enice窶� to Byron窶冱 Venice 窶� Bernard Beatty 2 Reimagining Venice and Visions of Decay in Wordsworth, the Shelleys and Thomas Mann 窶� Mark Sandy 3 J M W Turner and the 'Floating City' 窶� Andrew Wilton 4 Venice and Opera: Tradition, Propaganda and Transformation 窶� Jeremy Dibble 5 Venice, Dickens, Robert Browning and the Victorian Imagination 窶� Michael O窶儂eill 6 'The Lamp of Memory': Ruskin and Venice 窶� Dinah Birch 7 Edith Wharton窶冱 窶老enetian Backgrounds窶� 窶� Pamela Knights 8 Henry James窶冱 Venice and the Visual Arts 窶� Sarah Wootton 9 The Myth of Venice in the Decline of Eliot and Pound 窶� Jason Harding 10 Representations of Venice in Daphne du Maurier窶冱 Don窶冲 Look Now and Nicolas Roeg窶冱 Screen Adaptation 窶� Rebecca White
