British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914: Travels in the Palimpsest
| By: | Mahn, Churnjeet, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409432999 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409484004 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. Mahn's offers insights into the importance of the Murray and Baedeker guidebooks