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.

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, tradition...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Caught Between East and West: Negotiating Modern Greek Identity in Ida of Athens and Anastasius
• 3. "It Never Entered in My Head that You Were Going to Annex Any Romaic Specimens to Your Poem": Lord Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, and the Politicization of Greek Language, Literature and Learning
• 4. There's No Place Like Homeland: Victimized Greek Women, The Greek War of Independence, and the Limits of European Philhellenism
• 5. All Roads Lead to Constantinople: Re-Historicizing Greek-British Relations in The Travellers and The Last Man
• 6. Conclusion.