Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840

By Constanze Güthenke and Constanze Guthenke

This volume is an investigation of literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when Greece became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke explores the imaginative construction of the Greek nation in light of the literary strategies and constraints of Romantic aesthetics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231850
• ISBN13: 9780199231850
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"