Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ150) -  Ευτέρπη Μήτση

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Greece, as a site of relations between the classical and the modern, the West and the East, figured vividly in the Victorian imagination, inspiring novels, short stories, travelogues, essays, poems, as well as the visual arts. While ancient Greece informed Victorian Hellenism as a constitutive part of the West and its imaginary tropes, civilization and democracy, Modern Greece confused and often disappointed Victorians who took a critical distance from the hybridity that it represented. Through the analysis of representative texts which offered the British readers stories of heroism, war, and romance or satirized through word and image the historical and political developments in Greece, this course will explore the cultural relationship between Britain and Greece in the Victorian period. Starting from Mary Shelley in the 1830s and ending with Virginia Woolf in the 1900s, we will discuss ideas such as: empire and nationhood, the role of gender, race, and class in interpretations of Greece, the interface between the popular and the scholarly readings of Greece, popular adaptations of Greek mythology, and Greece in Victorian material culture. Moreover, by doing their own research and finding new relevant texts, students will actively contribute to the original research project “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture (REVICTO)” which is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI).

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Παρασκευή 1 Οκτωβρίου 2021