In Byron's shadow : modern Greece in the English & American imagination / David Roessel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roessel, David E. (David Ernest), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Knowledge--Greece.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Influence.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Greek influences.

English literature--Greek influences.

Greece--In literature.

Greece.

English-speaking countries--Intellectual life.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book 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.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations and Citations; Chronology; Introduction: Almost Impossible to Think Sanely about Greece; I. PAST GREATNESS AND PRESENT DEBASEMENT (1770-1833); 1. I Want to Revive Athens; 2. Greeces of Byron and of Homer; 3. On the Ruins of Missolonghi; II. THE MAGIC FORCE OF LEGEND (1833-1913); 4. Dangerous Ground; 5. Pet Balkan People; 6. Politicized Pans; III. THE END OF AMBROSIA AND BRIGANDS (1914-1939); 7. Constantinople, Our Star; 8. On the Quai at Smyrna; 9. A Hard Place to Write About; Conclusion: A New Kind of Byronism; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-377) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028678-4

0-19-516662-0

0-19-803290-0

1-280-53152-5

9786610531523

1-60256-447-7

OCLC:

559846904