The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, & the Uses of the Past (1797-1896)

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Roderick Beaton, David Ricks
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - 270 pages
This book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically 19th-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised its formative role through imaginative literature.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Italy and Greece compared
43
Greek Western perspectives
51
Philhellenism
65
religion the nation state
79
Revisiting religion and nationalism in nineteenthcentury Greece
95
the emergence of a national ideal in
109
the Romantic redefinition
123
Class and national identities in the Ionian Islands under British rule
161
Modern Greek and some
177
The Language Question and the Diaspora
189
canonizing Dionysios Solomos
201
0 Leandros and the politics of Romanticism
211
poetry and prose fiction in the national
225
the writing subject in Greek
239
Alexandros Papadiamantis and Orthodox
249

competing Greek perspectives
137
politics society in the Ionian Islands
149
Afterword
259
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