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 Venices appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
Introduction 1 A More Beloved Existence: From Shakespeares Venice
to Byrons Venice Bernard Beatty 2 Reimagining Venice and Visions of Decay
in Wordsworth, the Shelleys and Thomas Mann Mark Sandy 3 J M W Turner and
the 'Floating City' Andrew Wilton 4 Venice and Opera: Tradition, Propaganda
and Transformation Jeremy Dibble 5 Venice, Dickens, Robert Browning and the
Victorian Imagination Michael ONeill 6 'The Lamp of Memory': Ruskin and
Venice Dinah Birch 7 Edith Whartons Venetian Backgrounds Pamela
Knights 8 Henry Jamess Venice and the Visual Arts Sarah Wootton 9 The Myth
of Venice in the Decline of Eliot and Pound Jason Harding 10
Representations of Venice in Daphne du Mauriers Dont Look Now and Nicolas
Roegs Screen Adaptation Rebecca White
Michael ONeill is Professor of English at Durham University, UK. His books include The Human Minds Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelleys Poetry (1989) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013), as well as three volumes of poetry, the last of which was Gangs of Shadow (2014). Mark Sandy is Reader in English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is author of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (2013) and Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre (2005). Sarah Wootton is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and the visual arts, and is the author of Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature (2006) and Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Womens Writing and Screen Adaptation (2016).
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