Venice Transfigured
The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797
Published on 13. January 2001
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-312-23299-3 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines changing representations of Venice and the Venetian Republic in Britain from the 17th century until the collapse of the Serene Republic in 1797, a period in which Venice was an ideological reference point and a potent cultural symbol. In the British political imagination, Venice became an important cultural site where politics and culture converged. This approach incorporates visual culture, festivity and ritual, history and historical myth that illuminates the relationship between political ideology and cultural production.
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'...brief, elegant, and thoughtful book...' - American Historical ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-23299-3 (9780312232993)
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Person
JOHN EGLIN is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Montana. He is presently conducting research on the life and career of Richard "Beau" Nash, Master of Ceremonies at the Georgian resort of Bath.
Content
PART I: 'HIGH-FETCH'D PARALLELS' The Emergence of the Venetian Metaphor Myth and Counter-Myth in Interregnum and Restoration Venice in the Exclusion Debate Whigs, Tories, and Venetians The Transformation of the Venetian Metaphor PART II: VENICE REFASHIONED The Venetian Subtext of Whiggish Cultural Politics Virtue and Necessity: The Politics of English Palladianism 'A Perfect Commonwealth': Venetian Carnival and London Masquerade Patriots at Play: The Society of Dilettanti PART III: 'THE GREAT AND MAIN END OF TRAVELLING' Venice on Tour The Theory and Practice of Grand Tourism Patricians Priests Prostitutes Venice and the Debate over the Grand Tour Venice and the New Tourist PART IV: VENICE DEPICTED The Politics of the View Painting, Collecting and the Politics of Display Scenery and Subtext: Canaletto Commodified Patterns of Acquisition and Display Venice on the Thames PART V: VENICE PERFORMED Venice Preserved in its Seventeenth-Century Context Jacobites, Hanoverians, Patriots, and Venice Preserved Garrick's Role Change and its Significance Drury Lane, 1795: Revival and Prohibition PART VI: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE VENETIAN METAPHOR Historiographical and Geographical Trends Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Venice, 1765-1795 Venice and the Decline of Confessional Animosity 'The Fate of Venice': Britain and the Fall of Venice