Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913–2013
19 Papargyriou, Assinder, Holton, Papargyriou, Assinder, Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a compre- hensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane El- len 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 lit- erary orientations been attracted by a country burdened by its past and trou- bled by its present? What aspects of the country do they choose to highlight? Are female perceptions of Greece different from male ones? The book exam- ines these and many more exciting questions. Given its focus and diversity, it EDS. is addressed to audiences in English and Greek studies, Classical reception, European modernism, cultural studies and popular fiction, as well as to non- academic English-speaking readers who have an interest in Greece. Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 Eleni Papargyriou teaches at the University of Vienna, having previously lectured at King’s College London (2009–13). She has held research and teaching positions at Ox- Greece in British Women’s ford, Princeton and the University of Ioannina, Greece. She has published the mono- graph Reading Games in the Greek Novel (2011) and co-edited Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities (2015).
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