Texts

NB You should analyse a text of book length. Please choose a text which is focused primarily on Venice or the rest of the Veneto in the period since 1797. In addition to the texts discussed in the seminars, the following are recommended. If you would like to choose another, please check with your tutor.

• Baedeker, Karl, Northern Italy including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and routes through France, Switzerland, and Austria. Handbook for TravellersLink opens in a new window, 14th ed. (Leipzig, London, and New York, 1913) [NB See pp. 295-430 for the Veneto "Venetia", including Venice]
• Brodsky, Joseph, Watermark: An Essay on VeniceLink opens in a new window (Harmondsworth, 2013)
• Brown, Horatio F., Life on the LagoonsLink opens in a new window, 3rd ed. (London, 1900)
• Calvino, Italo, Invisible CitiesLink opens in a new window, trans. William Weaver (London, 1997)
• D'Annunzio, Gabriele, The Flame of LifeLink opens in a new window, trans. Kassandra Vivaria (Boston, 1900)
• D'Annunzio, Gabriele, NotturnoLink opens in a new window, trans. Stephen Sartarelli (New Haven, 2012)
• Dibdin, Michael, Dead LagoonLink opens in a new window (London, 1994)
• Foscolo, Ugo, The Last Letters of Jacopo OrtisLink opens in a new window, trans. by J.G. Nichols (London, 2022)

• Govion Broglio Solari, Catherine Hyde marquise de, Venice Under the Yoke of France and of AustriaLink opens in a new window (London, 1824)

• Hartley, L.P., Simonetta PerkinsLink opens in a new window (London, 1925)
• Hemingway, Ernest, Across the River and Into The TreesLink opens in a new window (London, 1950)
• Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to ArmsLink opens in a new window (London, 2014)
• James, Henry, The Aspern PapersLink opens in a new window (New York, 1908)
• James, Henry, Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro (London, 2013)
• James, Henry, The Wings of the DoveLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2020)
• Lucas, E.V., A Wanderer in VeniceLink opens in a new window (New York, 1914)
• McCarthy, Mary, Venice ObservedLink opens in a new window (Lausanne and London, 1956)
• McEwan, Ian, The Comfort of StrangersLink opens in a new window (London, 1981)
• Morand, Paul, VenicesLink opens in a new window (London, 2013)
• Price, Julius M., Six Months on the Italian Front, from the Stelvio to the Adriatic, 1915-1916Link opens in a new window (New York, 1917)
• Rolfe, Frederick, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window (New York, 1953)
• Symonds, Margaret, Days Spent on a Doge's FarmLink opens in a new window (London, 1893)
• Valeri, Diego, A Sentimental Guide to VeniceLink opens in a new window (Florence, 1955)