In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780195143867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 416 str.

David E. Roessel

Opis

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "haunted, holy ground" in English and American literature for almost two centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyzes 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.

Recenzje

Compulsive intellectual page-turners are rare delights. To get three in one year has been serendipity indeed. First, David Roessel's In Byron's Shadow. This astringent investigation picks up the Anglo-American literary love-affair with Hellenism around 1770, and carries the story on to 1967 and beyond. Roessel's scholarship is prodigious, his judgment sharp, his anecdotes often mischievous.