Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence. Ross<|

Michael Ross

Storied CitiesLiterary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome\nAuthor(s): Michael Ross\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780313287176, 978-0313287176\nSynopsis\nThe 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, [url] Howells, [url] Forster, and [url] Lawrence on Florence; Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, [url] 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.\n\nThe analysis points to Florence frequently being depi.