Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897 645 917 REVICTO

Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897

The REVICTO team is very pleased to present its new digital research tool, a supplement to REVICTO’s Digital Index. “Modern Grece in the Victorian Periodical…

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REVICTO at Borders and Crossings 2023 – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing 989 726 REVICTO

REVICTO at Borders and Crossings 2023 – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing

We are very pleased to announce that two REVICTO members will participate at Borders and Crossings 2023, an interdisciplinary conference on travel writing. Professor Efterpi…

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Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854) 1707 1078 REVICTO

Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854)

The article “A Day at Marathon” was published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (April 1854). Fraser’s was a monthly edition devoted to politics,…

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REVICTO in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 1150 1642 REVICTO

REVICTO in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association

We are pleased to announce that Professor Efrerpi Mitsi will participate in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association  (Friday March 31 – Sunday…

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William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905) 1567 1580 REVICTO

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

William Miller’s (1864-1945) Greek Life in Town and Country, published in 1905, offers an overview of contemporary life in Greece at the end of the…

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Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens 554 524 REVICTO

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

In the first days of March 1900, the “Art and Literature” section of several British newspapers included a short paragraph on a Greek lady who…

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The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos 640 389 REVICTO

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) was first written in Greek in 1861 by author and journalist Stephanos Theodoros Xenos and was his…

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Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine 571 881 REVICTO

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine

As American journalist and historian William James Stillman suggested in his book on the 1866 Cretan Insurrection (published in 1874), Greek politics had always relied…

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Cretan Amazons Revisited 595 533 REVICTO

Cretan Amazons Revisited

In a previous post, we reported on a Penny Illustrated piece titled “Cretan Amazons” about a “‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence” with…

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