Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840

ISBN-13: 9780199231850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str.

Constanze Guthenke

Opis

This volume is an investigation of literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when Greece became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke explores the imaginative construction of the Greek nation in light of the literary strategies and constraints of Romantic aesthetics.

Recenzje

rich and informative... This is an original book, notable in its scope and the fresh scrutiny brought to Romantic Hellenism.

O autorze

Constanze Guthenke is Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.