British romantic literature and the emerging modern Greek nation

Abstract: This book breaks new ground as the first to focus on the ways in which British Romantic writers, during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, engaged with Greece and Greeks primarily as part of their own, modern world. Most studies of Romantic Hellenism, for understandable reasons, place the emphasis on the reception of classical antiquity. David Roessel, in his classic study In Byron’s Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination (2002), covered a much wider canvas. Now Alexander Grammatikos has homed in on a small group of texts, some of them very well known, others barely known at all, even to specialists, but all of them dating from the crucial decades when the foundations were being laid for the Greek nation-state that exists today.

Author(s): Roderick Beaton, Carl Thompson, Amy Wilcockson and Amy Louise Blaney

Date Published: 6 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bj.2020.11

Keywords: Discovering Modern Greece, British Romantic Literature, Modern World & Emerging Modern Greek

Page(s): 79-86

Place of publication: United Kingdom

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Subject(s): English literature

Type of publication: Book Review