Texts

NB You should analyse a text of book length. 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)