Description
Book SynopsisGreece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 19132013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka Zinovieff formed special ties with Greece and made it the focus of their literary imagination. Moving from Bloomsbury to Mills & Boon, the book offers insight into the ways romantic literature has shaped readers' perceptions about Greece. Why have female authors of such diverse backgrounds and literary orientations been attracted by a country burdened by its past and troubled by its present? What aspects of the country do they choose to highlight? Are female perceptions of Greece different from male ones? The book examines these and many more exciting questions. Given its focus and dive
Table of Contents
Semele Assinder/Eleni Papargyriou: Introduction: British Women Writing Greece – Semele Assinder: Beginnings and Endings in Rose Macaulay’s <> – Vassiliki Kolocotroni: Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form – Rowena Fowler/Rose Little:“In a Different Light”: Imagining Greece in Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Pym – Deirdre David: Olivia Manning and the Longed-for City – Laura Vivanco: A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances – James Gifford: Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation – David Wills: Fire and Futility: Contemporary Women Novelists and WWI in Greece – Keli Daskala: Victoria Hislop’s <> (2005): The Reception and Impact of a Publishing Phenomenon in Greece – Eleni Papargyriou:“Perfidious Albion”: Axis Occupation and Civil War in Sofka Zinovieff’s <> – Contributors – Index.
