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Venice Rediscovered

Venice Rediscovered

by JohnPemble (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.23
Synopsis

What are the origins of the modern passion for Venice? In the two centuries since its political extinction, the city has been transformed into a great modern cultural symbol by the work of prominent intellectual and literary figures such as Ruskin, Proust, Mann, and Henry James. This work seeks to show how American and European outsiders developed an obsession with the idea of a dying city which must be preserved at all costs, and to reveal aspects of the development of modern Western sensibility.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 231
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 01 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 0192853287
ISBN 13: 9780192853288

Media Reviews
Full of fresh and little-known material; it is almost unfailingly interesting and invariably well written. --The New York Times Book Review
Pemble skillfully describes the ways in which successive generations of historians reinterpreted Venice based on their own contemporary agendas. --The Washington Post Book World
Accessible and exciting, with rich rewards for sophisticated readers. --Publishers Weekly


Full of fresh and little-known material; it is almost unfailingly interesting and invariably well written. --The New York Times Book Review
Pemble skillfully describes the ways in which successive generations of historians reinterpreted Venice based on their own contemporary agendas. --The Washington Post Book World
Accessible and exciting, with rich rewards for sophisticated readers. --Publishers Weekly

Full of fresh and little-known material; it is almost unfailingly interesting and invariably well written. --The New York Times Book Review
Pemble skillfully describes the ways in which successive generations of historians reinterpreted Venice based on their own contemporary agendas. --The Washington Post Book World
Accessible and exciting, with rich rewards for sophisticated readers. --Publishers Weekly


Full of fresh and little-known material; it is almost unfailingly interesting and invariably well written. --The New York Times Book Review


Pemble skillfully describes the ways in which successive generations of historians reinterpreted Venice based on their own contemporary agendas. --The Washington Post Book World


Accessible and exciting, with rich rewards for sophisticated readers. --Publishers Weekly


Author Bio

About the Author
John Pemble is a Reader in History at the University of Bristol. Educated at Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Paris, he has travelled extensively. Pemble's last book, The Mediterranean Passion, won the Wolfson Literary Award for History.