British literature and the Balkans [electronic resource] : themes and contexts / Andrew Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Andrew.

Series:

Studia imagologica ; 16.

Studia imagologica : Amsterdam studies on cultural identity ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature--Balkan Peninsula--History and criticism.

British literature.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. During the 1990's, the wars in the former Yugoslavia reactivated denigratory images of the region that many commentators perceived as a new, virulent strain of intra-European prejudice. British Literature and the Balkans is a wide-ranging and original analysis of balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the discourse’s emergence in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. There will be a particular focus on the ways in which the most significant currents in western thought – Romanticism, empiricism, imperialism, nationalism, communism – have helped to shape the British concept of the Balkans. The volume will be of interest to those working in the area of European cross-cultural representation in the disciplines of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Anthropology and History.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Frontier Myths

Typologies of the East

Through Savage Europe

Balkanism in Political Context

An Inflexible Exile

Women and War

An Escape from Decadence

Romantic Fiction

The Red Threat

Humanitarian Intervention

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-72703-6

9786612727030

90-420-2988-9

OCLC:

654375503