Diary Of An Idle Woman In Constantinople

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Genre : Constantinople
Author : Frances Elliot
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Release : 1893
File : 468 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044022656805


The Statesman S Year Book

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-12-28
File : 1207 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230253278


Greek Dystopia In British Women Travellers Discourse

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Greece has always occupied a prevalent position in European philosophy. During the Enlightenment, the Greco-Roman culture gained a new impetus, which paved the way for the surge of the Grand Tour and established Italy as a popular travel destination amongst European travellers who yearned to be in close communion with its ancient sites. Unlike Italy, Greece still posed a challenge to the average travel writer, since it functioned as a bridge between Europe and the Orient. The gradual shift of focus from Neoclassical ideals to Northernism, which conveniently conformed to the nation-building Anglo-Saxon paradigm, marked a parallel reversal of cultural order, which resulted in the view of Greece as a land of piracy and banditry, conditions which intensified its perception as the Oriental Other and led British intellectuals to associate the Greek nation with nearby countries on various levels. Considering the parallel emergence of the “pseudosciences”, which venerated the image of the Nordic race and persistently viewed other nations as the Other, Greece was automatically placed as an alien culture in the light of Social Darwinism. During its war of independence, Greece became the subject of ardent political and cultural debates, which favoured its autonomy from the Ottoman yoke, yet undermined its complete transformation into an independent state. The focal point of this book is British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era. The construction of a Greek dystopia will be explored in relation to the historical background that fuelled the negative conceptualisation of the Greek nation as mongrel, unruly, indolent and perilous to the British imperialist agenda. This book, therefore, sheds light on British women travellers’ efforts to subvert patriarchal authority and engage in predominantly male activities, during which they are purposefully or unconsciously led to several misconceptions regarding the Greek cause.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2018-04-18
File : 122 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781527509641


Women And Gender In Central And Eastern Europe Russia And Eurasia

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This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Mary Zirin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-03-26
File : 2121 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317451976


A Female Poetics Of Empire

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Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of ‘exoticism’, arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a ‘self’ encountering an ‘other’ results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities – mimetic, realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic, fantastic and picturesque on the other – that befit an ‘exotic’ representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction. This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference – self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness – onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic, and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-10-30
File : 266 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134663064


Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science And Art

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Genre : Art
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Release : 1893
File : 724 Pages
ISBN-13 : IOWA:31858016628103


The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science And Art

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Release : 1893
File : 724 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435028608313


The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science Art And Finance

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Genre : Art
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Release : 1893
File : 714 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112109683562


Intrepid Women

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Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies, the art produced by Victorian women has been viewed through a restrictive lens. Scholars have focused on works produced for the marketplace, but have overlooked art created and displayed outside of established venues and institutions of higher learning. Drawing upon sketches, paintings, and photographs, Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel is a groundbreaking study that examines the art that women produced whilst traveling, as well as the circumstances that took these artists - both amateurs and professionals - far beyond the reaches of the traditional Grand Tour. Traveling throughout the British Empire, including the Middle East, India, Canada, and North Africa, and even to the Americas, the artists adapted to new climes and foreign cultures partially by documenting the unfamiliar through their art, sometimes at great physical risk. This volume of essays offers fresh evidence that through their travel and art, women extended both geographic and social boundaries. Each author presents evidence that women overcame institutional as well as cultural obstacles to improve their artistic skills and to use their art to convey worlds most British citizens would never see for themselves.

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Genre : Art
Author : Jordana Pomeroy
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-07-05
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351562171


The Literary World

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Genre : Literature
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Release : 1893
File : 500 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044094018652