Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism
Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern west and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance. Shelley's protean and radical writing questions and illuminates the contemporary Romantic understanding of Greece. This book will appeal to students of Romantic Literature, as well as to those interested in the classical tradition.
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Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism
Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern west and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance. Shelley's protean and radical writing questions and illuminates the contemporary Romantic understanding of Greece. This book will appeal to students of Romantic Literature, as well as to those interested in the classical tradition.
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Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

by J. Wallace
Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

by J. Wallace

Hardcover(1997)

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Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern west and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance. Shelley's protean and radical writing questions and illuminates the contemporary Romantic understanding of Greece. This book will appeal to students of Romantic Literature, as well as to those interested in the classical tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333655696
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 05/30/1997
Edition description: 1997
Pages: 261
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - List of Plates - List of Abbreviations - Explorations - 'Things Foreign'?: Classical Education and Knowledge - 'The Common-hall of the Ancients': Democracy, Dialogue and Drama - 'A Flowery Band': Pastoral, Polemic and Translation - 'Hope beyond Ourselves': Orientalising Greece - 'Grecian Grandeur': Authority, Tyranny and Fragmentation - 'We are all Greeks': National Identity and War - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
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