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19/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

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The lengthy and detailed passage begins by alluding to the excellence and civilization of ancient Greece and goes on to make specific reference to the intricacy and richness of the…

11/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

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The following passage, published shortly after the opening of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, very briefly comments on one of the exhibits of the Greek pavilion linking it…

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

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The author of the popular Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840-48) narrates a tragic tale of abduction and apostacy set in the Greek War of Independence. When…

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

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After her successful travelogue The City of the Sultan, Pardoe, a travel writer and historical novelist, published a collection of oriental tales which are narrated by Katinka, a harem slave…

26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake.

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Shelley’s short story was published in The Keepsake, an annual illustrated literary collection mainly addressing a middle-class female readership. Using a mise-en-abyme technique, the story begins when Harry Valency, an…

06/11/2020

News

Asking the Right Questions: Researching Victorian Greece in Digital Humanities – REVICTO Webinar

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21 Nov. 2020 11.00-13.00 Organized by REVICTO: “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture,” supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for…

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The…

30/08/2020

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

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The Greek Court is approached by a façade having three Grecian doorways of the Grecian Doric Order. The visitor is or may be arrested at the principal entrance by what…

31/07/2020

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

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29/05/2020

News

REVICTO in NAVSA 2020! [postponed for Nov. 2021]

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We are very pleased to announce that REVICTO will be travelling to Vancouver for the annual North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in November 2020! (change of date for…

konstantina

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake.

Asking the Right Questions: Researching Victorian Greece in Digital Humanities – REVICTO Webinar

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

REVICTO in NAVSA 2020! [postponed for Nov. 2021]

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