Corinth Publication: Mahn, British Women's Travel to Greece ... 2012 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Name: | | Mahn, British Women's Travel to Greece ... 2012 | | Title: | | British Women's Travel to Greece 1840-1914 (Epub) Travels in the Palimpsest | | Author: | | Mahn, Churnjeet | | Publisher: | | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. | | Date: | | 2012 | | Abstract: | | Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, Mahn offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Her fascinating and historically contextualized study examines first-hand accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists and tourists as she charts women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. | | ISBN: | | 9781409484004 | | Google: | | http://books.google.com/books?id=GFoAWMIPOc0C |
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