British Women''s Travel to Greece, 1840-1914 - Travels in the Palimpsest

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, Mahn offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Her fascinating and historically contextualized study examines first-hand accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists and tourists as she charts women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Churnjeet Mahn, Mahn Churnjeet
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138108691
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10869-1
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism