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In Byron's shadow : modern Greece in the English & American imagination

Roessel, David

2002,2001

Overview

This book examines the significance of what Victor Hugo called the “Greece of Byron” or modern Greece in English and American literature. Although ancient Greece, Hugo's “Greece of Homer”, and modern Greece occupy the same geographical space on the map, they are two distinct entities in the Western imagination. Modern Greece, constructed by the early 19th-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been “haunted, holy ground” in literature for almost two centuries. This book 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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Subject: 1788-1824 / American literature / American literature -- Greek influences / American literature -- History and criticism / Baron / Byron, George Gordon Byron / Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Influence / Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Knowledge -- Greece / English literature / English literature -- Greek influences / English literature -- History and criticism / English-speaking countries / Greece / Greece -- In literature / Greek influences / History and criticism / In literature / Influence / Intellectual life / Knowledge / Literary Studies (19th Century) / Literary Studies (European) / Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets) / Literary Studies (Romanticism)
• ISBN: 9780195143867, 0195143868