Women writing Greece : essays on Hellenism, orientalism and travel /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (257 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 118 Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 118.
Subject:	Women -- Travel -- Historiography. Orientalism in literature. Hellenism in literature. English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism. Travelers' writings, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- Women authors. Hellenism in literature. Orientalism in literature. Travel. Women -- Travel -- Historiography. Women travelers -- Biography. Greece -- Description and travel. Great Britain. Greece. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11184324

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Other authors / contributors:	Kolocotroni, Vassiliki. Mētsē, Euterpē.
ISBN:	9781435684898 1435684893 904202481X 9789042024816 9789401206440 9401206449 9789042024816 904202481X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and Index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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 late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Women writing Greece. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008 9789042024816 904202481X

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