Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596-1682

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-62611-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3846 g

Reihe: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800

This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’ construction of Greece in the early modern Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites. Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts, and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece’s contemporary geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitsi, Efterpi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Angell in Oxford: The Travails of a Greek Monk in Seventeenth-Century England.- 3. The "fruit of travell": Fynes Moryson and Thomas Dallam in the Greek Islands.- 4. "A revelation of time": Translating Greece in George Sandys' Relation of a Journey.- 5. "Fensed with experience and garnished with truth": Experience and Invention in William Lithgow's Greek Journey.- 6. The Rediscovery of Athens in George Wheler's Journey into Greece.

Über Autor(innen)

Efterpi Mitsi is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.