British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation

• Main Author: Grammatikos, Alexander (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; British literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.
• Physical Description: X, 221 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319904405
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90440-5

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.