Description
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 b
