Victorians and Modern Greece : Literary and Cultural Encounters (Hardcover)

Efterpi Mitsi and Anna Despotopoulou,

Introduction

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Part I: Travels

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1. Sebastian Marshall,

Christopher Wordsworth’s Greece: Popular Topography from the Illustrated Serial to the Gift Book

2. Chryssa Marinou,

William M. Thackeray in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Athens

3. Roberta Micallef,

The Incongruous Greece of Lady Annie Brassey

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Part II: Periodicals

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4. Konstantina Georganta,

The Cretan Question in Punch Magazine, 1869-1898.

5. Efterpi Mitsi,

Fashioning Greece in The Woman’s World

6. Mathilde Pyrli,

“Deliciously primitive”: Insular Greece through the Eyes of Theodore Bent, 1883-1888

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Part III: Fictions

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7. Maria Schoina,

“[A] bold and dangerous freedom”: Representations of Greece in Mary Shelley’s Late Fiction

8. Anna Despotopoulou,

Held to Ransom: The Adventures of Greece in Victorian Popular Fiction

9. Vassiliki Kolocotroni,

“Doing one’s own little share”: Weaponising Smallness in Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s A Daughter of the Klephts, or a Girl of Modern Greece

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Part IV: Synchronies

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10. Churnjeet Mahn,

Whiteness in Ruins: Victorian Women Writers in Greece

11. Michele Mendelssohn,

A Janus-Faced Friend: Oscar Wilde and Modern Greece’s Queer Future

12. Victoria Mills,

“Greece at last!”: Desire, Aesthetics, and the Ecology of Ruin in Vernon Lee’s Greek Travel Writing

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David Roessel,

Afterword