In Byron's Shadow - Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2001
First published:	November 2001
Authors:	David Roessel
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-514386-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-514386-8
Barcode:	9780195143867

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