LEADER 03386nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910784908703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-72703-6 010 $a9786612727030 010 $a90-420-2988-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000035696 035 $a(EBL)556937 035 $a(OCoLC)654375503 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12147681 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381971 035 $a(PQKB)11605180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556937 035 $a(OCoLC)654375503$z(OCoLC)680616766$z(OCoLC)712992379$z(OCoLC)758541553$z(OCoLC)961527095$z(OCoLC)962570912 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042029880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10404060 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL272703 035 $a(PPN)158030109 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000035696 100 $a20100918d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritish literature and the Balkans$b[electronic resource] $ethemes and contexts /$fAndrew Hammond 210 $aAmsterdam $cEditions Rodopi$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aStudia imagologica : Amsterdam studies on cultural identity ;$v16 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2987-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aThe manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. During the 1990's, the wars in the former Yugoslavia reactivated denigratory images of the region that many commentators perceived as a new, virulent strain of intra-European prejudice. British Literature and the Balkans is a wide-ranging and original analysis of balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the discourse?s emergence in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. There will be a particular focus on the ways in which the most significant currents in western thought ? Romanticism, empiricism, imperialism, nationalism, communism ? have helped to shape the British concept of the Balkans. The volume will be of interest to those working in the area of European cross-cultural representation in the disciplines of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Anthropology and History. 410 0$aStudia imagologica ;$v16. 606 $aBritish literature$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory and criticism 607 $aBalkan Peninsula 615 0$aBritish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9 700 $aHammond$b Andrew$0887219 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784908703321 996 $aBritish literature and the Balkans$93753002 997 $aUNINA