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

by Roessel, David

• ISBN13: 9780195166620
• ISBN10: 0195166620
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Citations,	xvii
Chronology,	xix
Introduction: Almost Impossible to Think Sanely about Greece,	3	(10)
I. PAST GREATNESS AND PRESENT DEBASEMENT (1770-1833)
1. I Want to Revive Athens,	13	(29)
2. Greeces of Byron and of Homer,	42	(30)
3. On the Ruins of Missolonghi,	72	(29)
II. THE MAGIC FORCE OF LEGEND (1833-1913)
4. Dangerous Ground,	101	(31)
5. Pet Balkan People,	132	(27)
6. Politicized Pans,	159	(28)
III. THE END OF AMBROSIA AND BRIGANDS (1914-1939)
7. Constantinople, Our Star,	187	(23)
8. On the Quai at Smyrna,	210	(21)
9. A Hard Place to Write About,	231	(21)
Conclusion: A New Kind of Byronism,	252	(33)
Notes,	285	(54)
Bibliography,	339	(40)
Index,	379