Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel

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Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Rodopi, 2008 - 257 ページ
Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.

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Introduction
5
Lady Elizabeth Cravens Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque
19
Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece
39
Lady Morgans Woman Or Ida of Athens
55
Womens Travel Writing and the Production of Identities
77
Ethnography in Felicia Skenes Wayfaring Sketches
97
Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffers
113
British Women Travellers to Greece 18801930
135
Eva Palmers Distinctive Greek Journey
159
Gillian Bouras and the Others
185
Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales
211
The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storaces Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolfs Cassandra
225
Contributors
247
Index
251
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Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Efterpi Mitsi is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English Studies of the University of Athens.

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