Women writing Greece : : essays on Hellenism, orientalism and travel / / ed. by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi.
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 l...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 118 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi
- Lady Elizabeth Craven’s Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque / Efterpi Mitsi
- Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece / Vassiliki Markidou
- A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan’s Woman: Or Ida of Athens / Evgenia Sifaki
- Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women’s Travel Writing and the Production of Identities / Maria Koundoura
- The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene’s Wayfaring Sketches / Churnjeet Kaur Mahn
- ‘A world without woman in any true sense’: Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer’s Flying Leaves from East and West / TD Olverson
- British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930 / Martha Klironomos
- Eva Palmer’s Distinctive Greek Journey / Artemis Leontis
- ‘No Place Like Home’: Gillian Bouras and the ‘Others’ / Christina Dokou
- Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales / Helga Ramsey-Kurz
- The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace’s Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf’s Cassandra / Asimina Karavanta
- Contributors
- Index.