Venice Myth

David Barnes is Departmental Lecturer in English at Sommerville College, Oxford, where his research and teaching interests cover a range of literature from the period 1800 to the present, particularly on the ways modern writers present their work in relation to place, environment and nation. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education and The Guardian. He is a published poet and short fiction writer. This is his first sole-authored book.

'carries plenty of interest ... Barnes is right to read a city that lives on in myth and reality.' Times Higher Education

• Introduction: The Venice Myth; Chapter 1 Romantics; Chapter 2 Revolutionaries; Chapter 3 Tourists; Chapter 4 Fascists: The Stamp of the Lion; Chapter 5 Fascists: Urbs, Passion and Politics; Chapter 6 Beware of the Doge: Venice Deconstructed;