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In Byron's Shadow

By Roessel, David E.

In Byron's Shadow Social Sciences

In Byron's Shadow

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Modern Greece constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been 'haunted, holy ground' in English and American literature for almost two centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyses 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 nineteenth century, and that twentieth-century Greece became a symbol of the attitudes and ideals that many believed caused the Great War.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
408
Release Date:
2001-11-29
Publication Date:
2001-10-29
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195143868
ISBN13:
9780195143867
Weight:
810 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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