Placing modern Greece [electronic resource] : the dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840 / Constanze G�uthenke.
Series: Classical presencesPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 276 p.)ISBN:- 9780199231850
- German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Greek poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Romanticism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
- Romanticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Greece -- History -- 19th century
- Idealism in literature
- Greece -- In literature
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An investigation of literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it 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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.