About this title: Watery, dark, silent, Venice has long been a site and topic for the European imagination. Venice - the place, the names, the dream - has been the scene and inspiration of many writers, particularly Byron, Ruskin, James, von Hoffmannsthal, Proust and Pound. They are the focus of Tony Tanner's exploration of Venice in literature and the starting point for further discussions of Browning and Melville, Rilke, Mann and Sartre. Defeated by Napoleon in 1797, Venice dropped out of history, languishing through two centuries as a curiously marooned spectacle. The beautiful city par excellence, the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Date Published: 1992.
ISBN-13:9780674933125ISBN:0674933125
Description: Very good plus, unused condition with text clean & binding tight / cover rubbed with very minor ruffling of otherwise very good plus crisp dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard U.P., Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674933125ISBN:0674933125
Description: 24 B/W Photos. VG+/Fine. W/Dust Jacket 384pgs(Index) Ink owner name, address stamp on page after front endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & tight. DJ not chipped, torn, etc. Rest of. Book in Fine condition. ISBN 0674933125. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674933125ISBN:0674933125
Description: 0674933125 Ex-library with usual stampings, etc. Hardcover with dj in protective mylar. Light rubbing and shelfwear to dj. Contents clean and tight. 384 pages, index, notes, b&w illus. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date Published: 2 April 1992
ISBN-13:9780631155539ISBN:0631155538
Description: Very Good. Ships from friendly & experienced UK bookseller. £0.25 donated to charity. Ex-library, but in very good condition. light. pp. 384. read more
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