Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination
Since the 1800s, the Balkans has undergone a process of imaginative colonization by the West, whereby products developed in the West became better known than their real counterparts. This book argues that this imperalism has had insidious but little-recognized consequences.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 254 pages : map ; 24 cm
9780300073126, 0300073127
39450599
'And what should I do in Illyria?': English literature and the Balkans
Byron's children: literary perceptions of the Balkans in the nineteenth century
The Balkans in popular fiction. Prisoners of Zenda: the imagined states of the Balkans ; The Balkan threat: vampires, spies, murder and the Orient Express : Dracula and the Balkan gothic, Balkan settings of the spy novel, On the Orient Express route
War and diplomacy in the new Ruritania: comic visions of the Balkans. Bernard Shaw's Bulgaria ; Saki's lost Sanjak ; E.M. Forester's passage to 'the heart of Bosnia' ; Lawrence Durrell and his predecessors: British diplomats in the Balkans ; Evelyn Waugh: an English officer with the partisans
Spectres of war: representations of the 'real' Balkans. Edith Durham and the Balkan tangle ; Rebecca West travels east ; Olivia Manning's Balkan cityscapes ; 'Why the Balkans attract women'
Reclaiming Balkan Erewhons