The bravo : a Venetian story
著者
書誌事項
The bravo : a Venetian story
(AMS studies in the nineteenth century, no. 49)
AMS Press, c2011
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Begun in 1830, amid the turmoil of the July Revolution in Paris, The Bravo depicts an early eighteenth-century Venice rife with deceit and cruelty, a place where oligarchic senators pretend to govern a republic for the benefit of the masses while using their secret councils to preserve their wealth. For Cooper, the heart of Venetian corruption was its "soulless corporation": councils of senators whose anonymity removed them from personal moral responsibility and whose regular turnover within their class guaranteed the immortality of their state. With French oligarchs quickly usurping their country's liberal revolution, Cooper framed his narrative of the "soulless corporation" to apply equally to contemporary France, aristocratic England, and money-mad America.
This meticulously edited edition, which has received the seal of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the MLA, is based on the first London edition, the only one Cooper proofread. Incorporating all the changes Cooper made for the revised text of 1834, the AMS edition also includes superior variants from the rough-draft manuscript that were lost during the transmission of the text.
An extensive historical introduction, as well as detailed explanatory notes and valuable contemporary illustrations of Venice, give readers a sense of the context necessary to fully appreciate Coooper's first and best political novel.
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