The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)Routledge, 2016 M03 3 - 284 pages Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 44
Page xi
... role of literature in the construction of the nation, dream discourse in literature, and psychoanalytical literary theory. Yanna Delivoria is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of ...
... role of literature in the construction of the nation, dream discourse in literature, and psychoanalytical literary theory. Yanna Delivoria is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of ...
Page 11
... role of the Greek experience in the creation of today's Europe of sovereign, nation states and of the worldwide phenomenon of nationalism. About this book These remarks are intended to establish both a rationale and a context for the ...
... role of the Greek experience in the creation of today's Europe of sovereign, nation states and of the worldwide phenomenon of nationalism. About this book These remarks are intended to establish both a rationale and a context for the ...
Page 12
... Hatzopoulos, the rhetoric of the Greek Revolution is less uniformly secular than might have been expected, with a strong admixture of terms derived from the Orthodox tradition; Gazi, reviewing the role of religion 12 RodeRick BeaToN.
... Hatzopoulos, the rhetoric of the Greek Revolution is less uniformly secular than might have been expected, with a strong admixture of terms derived from the Orthodox tradition; Gazi, reviewing the role of religion 12 RodeRick BeaToN.
Page 13
... role of religion in the early decades of the independent Greek state, uncovers a multifaceted flexibility in the ... roles of 'autochthons', or 'inside Greeks', those born within the boundaries of the kingdom established in 1832, and ...
... role of religion in the early decades of the independent Greek state, uncovers a multifaceted flexibility in the ... roles of 'autochthons', or 'inside Greeks', those born within the boundaries of the kingdom established in 1832, and ...
Page 14
... role in bringing the first modern Olympic Games to Athens in 1896. The end-point of the Athens Olympics is also signalled in the final chapter, by David Ricks, who contrasts the contributions to the Olympic celebrations by the poet ...
... role in bringing the first modern Olympic Games to Athens in 1896. The end-point of the Athens Olympics is also signalled in the final chapter, by David Ricks, who contrasts the contributions to the Olympic celebrations by the poet ...
Contents
1 | |
The View From The Early twentyfirstCentury | 19 |
Greek Western Perspectives | 51 |
religion the nation state | 79 |
insiders vs outsiders | 107 |
politics society in the ionian islands | 149 |
Part VI Language national identity | 175 |
Part VII The nation in the literary imagination | 199 |
Afterword | 259 |
Index | 263 |
Other editions - View all
The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the ... DAVID. RICKS No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
according ancient appeared argued Athens Balkan become British called chapter Christian Church classical concept considered constitution context contribution course critical cultural David Ricks discussion early emerged empire Enlightenment established Europe European evidence expressed fact fiction foreign French German Greece Greek national groups hand Hellenism historians historiography ideas identity ideological important Independence institutions intellectual interest Ionian Islands issue Italy Kitromilides language late later liberal literature living London means merchants Modern Greek narrative nationalist nature nineteenth century novel original Orthodox Ottoman Paparrigopoulos particular past period perspective Philhellenism poet poetry political present problem published question radical reading reference relation religion religious represented role Romantic rule social society Solomos story studies texts theory tradition translation turn union University Press volume writing written και του