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Crete as Britain’s “highway to the East” in The Daily News (22 November 1875)
Crete as Britain’s “highway to the East” in The Daily News (22 November 1875) 1071 574 REVICTO

In November 1875, the Liberal London newspaper The Daily News (22 November 1875, p. 4) responded to the building Eastern crisis by suggesting that Britain’s Eastern Question should not be a…

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Frederick William Faber in 1841 Greece
Frederick William Faber in 1841 Greece 1157 804 REVICTO

“A western amid the bewildering glories of pagan Greece and the novelties of the oriental ritual.” Faber, Frederick William. Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and Among Foreign Peoples. London:…

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REVICTO in the International Symposium Literary Hotels, Athens, 9-11 September 2021
REVICTO in the International Symposium Literary Hotels, Athens, 9-11 September 2021 2000 1441 REVICTO

We are very pleased to announce that Mathilde Pyrli, a team member of the REVICTO project, will be presenting a paper at the International Symposium: Literary Hotels to be held…

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Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856
Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856 2000 1269 REVICTO

Herman Melville first arrived at the island of Syra (Syros) on board the steamship Egyptian on Tuesday, December 2, 1856. He saw the place a second time, again in December,…

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Modern Greece in Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia (1871, 1887)
Modern Greece in Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia (1871, 1887) 1344 994 REVICTO

Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia, a two-volume work of 2500 pages in quarto size, was published in Philadelphia (USA) in 1871 and again in 1887 in a slightly revised form. The subtitle…

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‘The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions’: Williams George Clark in Peloponnesus and from Athos to Salonica (1858, 1863)
‘The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions’: Williams George Clark in Peloponnesus and from Athos to Salonica (1858, 1863) 150 150 REVICTO

“The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions; and a knowledge of any country derived from actual inspection, gives an unsuspected significance and a new interest to the study…

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Greece in Victorian Popular Culture CFP
Greece in Victorian Popular Culture CFP 150 150 REVICTO

Greece in Victorian Popular Culture International Conference 8-9 April 2022 Department of English Language and Literature National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation Call for…

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William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens
William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens 640 334 REVICTO

The fifth chapter of William Thackeray’s travelogue Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (1846) offers an account of modern…

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Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece 1446 925 REVICTO

The Modern Argonauts You have heard the ancient story, How the gallant sons of Greece, Long ago, with Jason ventured For the fated Golden Fleece; How they traversed distant regions,…

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REVICTO Research: Two publications forthcoming in 2021!
REVICTO Research: Two publications forthcoming in 2021! 150 150 REVICTO

E. Mitsi. “’Buried among the ruins’: Gissing and the Sorcery of Athens”, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 139, forthcoming Summer 2021. A. Despotopoulou and E. Mitsi. “Real…

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