British Literature and the Balkans

Themes and Contexts
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-2987-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 321 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Studia Imagologica

The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. During the 1990s, the wars in the former Yugoslavia reactivated denigratory images of the region that many commentators perceived as a new, virulent strain of intra-European prejudice. British Literature and the Balkans is a wide-ranging and original analysis of balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the discourse’s emergence in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. There will be a particular focus on the ways in which the most significant currents in western thought – Romanticism, empiricism, imperialism, nationalism, communism – have helped to shape the British concept of the Balkans.
The volume will be of interest to those working in the area of European cross-cultural representation in the disciplines of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Anthropology and History.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frontier Myths
Typologies of the East
Through Savage Europe
Balkanism in Political Context
An Inflexible Exile
Women and War
An Escape from Decadence
Romantic Fiction
The Red Threat
Humanitarian Intervention
Bibliography
Index