03386nam 2200613 a 450 991080971000332120200520144314.01-282-72703-6978661272703090-420-2988-9(CKB)2670000000035696(EBL)556937(OCoLC)654375503(SSID)ssj0000413230(PQKBManifestationID)12147681(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413230(PQKBWorkID)10381971(PQKB)11605180(MiAaPQ)EBC556937(OCoLC)654375503(OCoLC)680616766(OCoLC)712992379(OCoLC)758541553(OCoLC)961527095(OCoLC)962570912(nllekb)BRILL9789042029880(Au-PeEL)EBL556937(CaPaEBR)ebr10404060(CaONFJC)MIL272703(PPN)158030109(EXLCZ)99267000000003569620100918d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBritish literature and the Balkans[electronic resource] themes and contexts /Andrew HammondAmsterdam Editions Rodopi20101 online resource (320 p.)Studia imagologica : Amsterdam studies on cultural identity ;16Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2987-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- 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.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 1990's, 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.Studia imagologica ;16.British literatureBalkan PeninsulaHistory and criticismBalkan PeninsulaBritish literatureHistory and criticism.820.9Hammond Andrew887219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809710003321British literature and the Balkans4099716UNINA