In Byron's shadow : modern Greece in the English & American imagination
Modern Greece, constructed by the early 19th-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been haunted, holy ground in English and American literature for almost two centuries. This text analyzes how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of Greece to suit changing eras.; Complementing and complicating Edward Said's view of relations between East and West, Roessel discusses the way perceptions of modern Greece have been shaped by historical events, arguing that the Greek struggle for independence became a touchstone in the English and American imagination of the 19th century, and that 20th-century Greece became a symbol of the attitudes and ideals that many believed caused the Great War
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xxii, 385 pages)
9780198032908, 9781280531521, 0198032900, 1280531525
559846904
Abbreviations and Citations; Chronology; Introduction: Almost Impossible to Think Sanely about Greece; I. PAST GREATNESS AND PRESENT DEBASEMENT (1770-1833); 1. I Want to Revive Athens; 2. Greeces of Byron and of Homer; 3. On the Ruins of Missolonghi; II. THE MAGIC FORCE OF LEGEND (1833-1913); 4. Dangerous Ground; 5. Pet Balkan People; 6. Politicized Pans; III. THE END OF AMBROSIA AND BRIGANDS (1914-1939); 7. Constantinople, Our Star; 8. On the Quai at Smyrna; 9. A Hard Place to Write About; Conclusion: A New Kind of Byronism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J. KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y