Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013
Author: Eleni Papargyriou
Publisher: Lang Classical Studies
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433131936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- Contents -- Introduction: British Women Writing Greece (Semele Assinder / Eleni Papargyriou) -- 1. Beginnings and Endings in Rose Macaulay's The Empty Berth (Semele Assinder) -- 2. Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form (Vassiliki Kolocotroni) -- 3. "In a Different Light": Imagining Greece in Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Pym (Rowena Fowler / Rose Little) -- 4. Olivia Manning and the Longed-for City (Deirdre David) -- 5. A Place "We All Dream About": Greece in Mills & Boon Romances (Laura Vivanco) -- 6. Mary Stewart's Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation (James Gifford) -- 7. Fire and Futility: Contemporary Women Novelists and WWI in Greece (David Wills) -- 8. Victoria Hislop's The Island (2005): The Reception and Impact of a Publishing Phenomenon in Greece (Kelli Daskala) -- 9. "Perfidious Albion": Axis Occupation and Civil War in Sofka Zinovieff's The House on Paradise Street (Eleni Papargyriou) -- Contributors -- Index