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. |
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... translated into Greek) and From Byzantium to Modern Greece: medieval literature and its modern reception (2008). Eleni Calligas is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Arcadia Centre of Hellenic, Mediterranean and Balkan Studies (Athens) ...
... translated into Greek) and From Byzantium to Modern Greece: medieval literature and its modern reception (2008). Eleni Calligas is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Arcadia Centre of Hellenic, Mediterranean and Balkan Studies (Athens) ...
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... translator. She has published a number of articles in Greek and international journals on Philhellenism, nineteenth-century historiography, and the Eastern Question. Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of ...
... translator. She has published a number of articles in Greek and international journals on Philhellenism, nineteenth-century historiography, and the Eastern Question. Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of ...
Page 1998
... translation series of Modern Greek literature published by the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the same university. His books include The other self: selfhood and society in Modern Greek fiction (2003, also ...
... translation series of Modern Greek literature published by the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the same university. His books include The other self: selfhood and society in Modern Greek fiction (2003, also ...
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... translated into English; the Greek translation, made as late as 1872, was revised and re-published in 1982. On the reception of this work in Greece see Veloudis 1982. In the monumental work with this title, published by the historian ...
... translated into English; the Greek translation, made as late as 1872, was revised and re-published in 1982. On the reception of this work in Greece see Veloudis 1982. In the monumental work with this title, published by the historian ...
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... translation (1996). Among many publications in English, especially relevant to the subject of the present book is Kitromilides 1998. During the last twenty years, several studies have appeared in English, in which the dominance of ...
... translation (1996). Among many publications in English, especially relevant to the subject of the present book is Kitromilides 1998. During the last twenty years, several studies have appeared in English, in which the dominance of ...
Contents
1993 | |
the German | |
European historiographical influences upon the young Konstantinos | |
Philhellenism and Hellenism | |
sacred myths motifs and symbols in | |
Revisiting religion and nationalism in nineteenthcentury Greece | |
the emergence of a national ideal in the narratives | |
competing Greek perspectives on | |
Radical nationalism in the British Protectorate of the Ionian Islands 1815 | |
Modern Greek and some parallel | |
canonizing Dionysios Solomos as | |
poetry and prose fiction in the national | |
Alexis Politis | |
Afterword | |
the Romantic redefinition of | |
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