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The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in , with its first book publication later in the.
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The Unwise Candor of “The Aspern Papers”

They were surmounted with old, faded, painted escutcheons, and here and there in the spaces between them hung brown pictures, which I noted as speciously bad, in battered and tarnished frames […] For Byron, then, four authors come into the picture in creating an imaginary Venice, one known before going there: Thomas Otway, the author of Venice Preserved ; Ann Radcliffe, the author of The Mysteries of Udolpho , which presents an imaginary, melancholy Venice; Shakespeare; and Schiller.

The novel, however, seems to have impressed its readers above all for the phrase quoted above. James himself reminds us of this in the well-known opening paragraph of his essay on Venice:. Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and of all the cities of the world is the easiest to visit without going there.

Herbert Esq. Any image of a lover serenading his sweetheart on a balcony, of a romantic elopement, of heroic deeds, can be seen as a background to which The Aspern Papers offers an ironic commentary. The plotting is eventually unsuccessful.

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The reference to these objects of religion is an obvious hint at Roman Catholic depravity. I sawe, it was there, as free to sinne, not onelie without all punishment, but also without any mans marking, as it is free in the citie of London, to chose, without all blame, whether a man lusts to weare Shoo or pantocle. And good cause why: For being unlike in troth of Religion, they must nedes be unlike in honestie of living Senses are always alerted in Venice, and the visitor should be careful, as. For if a stranger entereth into one of their Gondolas, and doth not presently tell them whither he will goe, they will incontinently carry him of their owne accord to a religious house forsooth, where his plumes shall be well pulled before he commeth forth again ….

Therefore I counsaile all my countrimen whatsoever, Gentlemen or others that determine hereafter to see Venice, to beware of the Circaean cups, and the Syrens melody, I meane these seducing and tempting Gondoleers of the Rialto bridge, least they afterward cry Peccavi when it is too late Coryat I For thou shalt see her decked with many chaines of gold and orient pearle like a second Cleopatra, but they are very little divers gold rings beautified with diamonds and other costly stones, jewels in both her eares of great worth.

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A gowne of damaske I speake this of the nobler Cortizans either decked with a deep gold fringe […] or laced with five or sixe gold laces each two inches broade. Her petticoate of red chamlet edged with gold fringe, stockings of carnasion silke, her breath and her whole body, the more to enamour thee, most fragrantly perfumed I And amongst other amiable ornaments she will shew thee one thing only in her chamber tending to mortification, a matter strange amongst so many irritamenta malorum; even the picture of our Lady by her bedde side, with Christ in her armes, placed withing a cristall glasse I Ben Jonson chose a Venetian setting for his play Volpone or the Fox , to stage a warning against plots in England.

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We have here a macrosystem of representation, whose single items were not necessarily known in detail. James of course, as any great writer, refined and changed this representation: there is no explicit stiletto or poison to further the drama, but the scene is filled with the representation of an explicit psychological war, which takes place in a labyrinthine Venice, an apt stage for the psychological drama. The actors are different, as are the means of the plotting, but the stage and its atmosphere of intrigue, reflected in the topography of the city, are the same.

It does not belong to the present, and any offer of sexual relation, which is not so alluring, is to be rejected: the passion is all for the papers. See also Giuliano Gramigna, pp.

One must also remember that the black legend of Venice was intensified by such interpretations of her history as the post-Napoleon Histoire de la Republique de Venise by Daru , explicitly mentioned by Cooper as one of his sources. But do these letters really exist and what scandalous information will they bring to the surface?

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Please click here to see subtitles supported for this month's releases. Posted in Current Releases , Drama , Featured , March , Worldwide on November 30th, Set in Venice in , Morton, an ambitious young writer fascinated by iconic romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, strives to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful mistress, Juliana, who now decades later, lives in a palazzo with her niece, whom she dominates and Morton will come to seduce. Written by admin View all posts by: admin. Language Chart Please click here to see subtitles supported for this month's releases.


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