British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914

Travels in the Palimpsest
Neuauflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4094-3299-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: The Nineteenth Century Series

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. Mahn's offers insights into the importance of the Murray and Baedeker guidebooks; how knowledge of Greece and Classical Studies were used to justify colonial rule of India at the same time that Agnes Smith Lewis and Jane Ellen Harrison used Greece as a symbol of women's emancipation; British women's production of the first anthropological accounts of Modern Greece; and fin-de-siècle women who asserted their right to see and claim antiquity at the same time that the safety of the independent lady traveler was being called into question by the media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahn, Churnjeet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Greek panoramas: Murray and Baedeker's guidebooks to Greece, 1840-1909; 'Hellas at Cambridge': Agnes Smith Lewis and Jane Ellen Harrison; Ethnography and British women's travel writing about Greece, 1847-1914; Image conscious: the new lady traveller at the fin de siecle; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Churnjeet Mahn is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.