Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and RomeBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 310 頁 The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A wealth of writing on each is examined in fiction and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mainly by British and American authors. Included are works by Robert Browning on Florence and Rome; George Eliot, W.D. Howells, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence on Florence; Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, L.P. Hartley, and Anthony Hecht on Venice; Arthur Hugh Clough, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, and Aldous Huxley on Rome; and Henry James and Bernard Malamud on Florence, Venice, and Rome. |
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... hours , enveloped in light and silence , to have known them once is to have always a terrible standard of enjoyment , " observes James ( Hours 20 ) . Such a " terrible standard " is laid upon James's young hero , Hyacinth Robinson ...
... hour - glass as well as of the sea " ( 2 : 7 ) . For Mary McCarthy , too , " Venice is an eternal present " ( Venice ... ( Hours 32 ) , sums up the universal impression . The dour eye of John Eustace sees something tomblike even in the ...
... Hours to " the sad - eyed old witch of Venice " ( 72 ) call Juliana irresistibly to mind . According to the narrator's confederate , Mrs. Prest , both aunt and niece " have the reputation of witches " ( 280 ) , and the narrator himself ...
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A Tale of Three Cities | 1 |
The Etrurian Athens | 17 |
Robert Brownings Dialectical City | 29 |
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