Venice in the First World War
Seminar Questions
- How did the First World War impact Venice and the Veneto?
- What factors shaped contemporary representations of Venice between 1914 and 1918?
Core Reading
NB Each of you should read Bosworth AND Thompson. Each of you should also read EITHER Lussu OR Repington OR Slaughter.
- Bosworth, R.J.B., "Chapter 4: Venice and its First World War" in (New Haven, 2015)
- Thompson, Mark, "Chapter 17 Whiteness" in (London, 2008)
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Lussu, Emilio, "Chapter XXI" in A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War I, trans. Gregory Conti (New York, 2014) [The chapter begins "By November the snow was already deep."]
- Repington, Charles a虁 Court, "Chapter IX A Tour in Italy, June 1916" in (Boston and New York, 1920)
- Slaughter, Gertrude, "" in Heirs of Old Venice (New Haven, 1927) [The other chapters are also of interest though they are not required reading].
Recommended Reading
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Electronic Resources
Removing the Horses from the Facade of the Basilica di San Marco, 27 May 1915.