Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome

by Michael L. Ross

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313287171
• ISBN13: 9780313287176
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"