British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914
Travels in the Palimpsest
Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. Mahn's offers insights into the importance of the Murray and Baedeker guidebooks; how knowledge of Greece and Classical Studies were used to justify colonial rule of India…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-17128-7
- EAN: 9781317171287
- Produktnummer: 24381965
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'032 KB
Über den Autor
Churnjeet Mahn is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
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