British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation

Alexander Grammatikos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:12th Jun '18

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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.

“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)

ISBN: 9783319904399

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2969g

221 pages

1st ed. 2018