| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 118 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 118.
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| Contents |
Introduction; Lady Elizabeth Craven's Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque; Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece; A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan's Woman: Or Ida of Athens; Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women's Travel Writing and the Production of Identities; The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene's Wayfaring Sketches; 'A world without woman in any true sense': Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer's; British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930; Eva Palmer's Distinctive Greek Journey |
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'No Place Like Home': Gillian Bouras and the 'Others'Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales; The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace's Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf's Cassandra; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
"Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women -- Travel -- Historiography
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Orientalism in literature.
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Hellenism in literature.
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English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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TRAVEL.
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English prose literature -- Women authors
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Hellenism in literature
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Orientalism in literature
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Travel
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Women -- Travel -- Historiography
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Women travelers -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057050
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki.
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Mētsē, Euterpē.
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| ISBN |
9781435684898 |
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1435684893 |
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904202481X |
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9789042024816 |
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9789401206440 |
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9401206449 |
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