British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 1-27 Caught Between East and West: Negotiating Modern Greek Identity in Idaof Athensand Anastasius (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 29-66 “It Never Entered into 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 (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 67-104 There’s No Place Like Homeland: Victimized Greek Women, the Greek War of Independence, and the Limits of European Philhellenism (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 105-156 All Roads Lead to Constantinople: Re-historicizing Greek–British Relations in The Travellers and The Last Man (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 157-192 Conclusion (Alexander Grammatikos)....Pages 193-199 Back Matter ....Pages 201-221