Venice and the cultural imagination
Subtitle: 'this strange dream upon the water'
By: edited by Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy and Sarah Wootton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781315655611
Subjects: In literature; Literature
Notes: Originally published 2012 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A 'more beloved existence' : from Shakespeare's 'Venice' to Byron's Venice / Bernard Beatty; title: 2. Reimagining Venice and visions of decay in Wordsworth, the Shelleys and Thomas Mann / Mark Sandy; title: 3. J.M.W. Turner and the 'Floating city' / Andrew Wilton; title: 4. Venice and opera : tradition, propaganda and transformation / Jeremy Dibble; title: 5. Venice, Dickens, Robert Browning and the Victorian imagination / Michael O'Neill; title: 6. 'The lamp of memory' : Ruskin and Venice / Dinah Birch; title: 7. Edith Wharton's 'Venetian backgrounds' / Pamela Knights; title: 8. Henry James's Venice and the visual arts / Sarah Wootton; title: 9. The myth of Venice in the decline of Eliot and Pound / Jason Harding; title: 10. Representations of Venice in Daphne du Maurier's Don't look now and Nicolas Roeg's screen adaption / Rebecca White.