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- Shifts traditional focus from Romantic engagement with Ancient Greece to Modern Greece
- Emphasizes the ways that early nineteenth-century British literature about contemporary Greece helped to strengthen British-Greek intercultural relations and, ultimately, to situate Greece within a European sphere of influence
- Uses comparatist theories of nationalism and cultural identity and a new historicist approach that highlights the political, cultural, and sociological dimensions of literary production
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece. Whereas, traditionally, studies of British Romantic Hellenism have predominantly focused on Europe’s preoccupation with an idealized Ancient Greece, this study emphasizes the nuanced and complex nature of British Romantic writers’ engagements with Modern Greece. Specifically, the book emphasizes the ways that early nineteenth-century British literature about contemporary Greece helped to strengthen British-Greek intercultural relations and, ultimately, to situate Greece within a European sphere of influence.
Reviews
“A compact and systematic study, this book provides a dense, solid, and at the same time dynamic account of the cultural, ideological, and political nodes underlying the process of Greek national independence, in a transnational and cross-cultural perspective.” (Franca Dellarosa, The BARS Review, Vol. 54, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
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Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
Alexander Grammatikos
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation
Authors: Alexander Grammatikos
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90440-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90439-9Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08015-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90440-5Published: 24 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 221
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature