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REVICTO at the “Grand Tour” lectures, Benaki Museum 936 658 REVICTO

REVICTO at the “Grand Tour” lectures, Benaki Museum

We are delighted to announce that on December 10, REVICTO’s principal investigator, Evi Mitsi, gave a lecture as invited speaker at the Benaki Museum. Titled John Frederick Lewis’s Enigmatic Greek Women and Victorian Τravellers’ Greece, it was the fourth in a series of lectures given on the occasion of the Grand Tour exhibition, which is organized…

A Modern Greek Heroine (1880) by Henry Cresswell 832 1175 REVICTO

A Modern Greek Heroine (1880) by Henry Cresswell

Richard Henry Cresswell’s (1846–1925) first novel, A Modern Greek Heroine, was published anonymously in 1880 by Hurst and Blackett in three volumes. Cresswell had given up his curacy at Christ Church, Clapham that same year and turned to writing fiction. His later novels gained increasing popularity and were advertised as written ‘By the author of…

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters 789 1176 REVICTO

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Edited By Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou Routledge, 2025 Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction, poetry, and travel writing, revealing the popular reception of the modern nation in the Victorian period. Reflecting upon the tensions–ancient and modern, oriental and European,…

REVICTO at The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA) Inaugural conference 400 400 REVICTO

REVICTO at The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA) Inaugural conference

Two members of the REVICTO team, Efterpi Mitsi and Anna Despotopoulou, organized a panel on ‘Victorians and Intertemporal Greece’ in the conference  ‘The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal’ which took place in the University of Durham (10-12/7/2024). This was the inaugural conference of  The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA). The panel explored the…

REVICTO at (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference, Part 2 1200 1600 REVICTO

REVICTO at (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference, Part 2

Three members of the REVICTO team presented their papers at the (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference (Thessaloniki,  3-5 November 2023), at a special panel on Greek Travel and Victorian Mobilities. Left to right: Konstantina Georganta, Efterpi Mitsi, and Chryssa Marinou   Efterpi Mitsi presented her paper entitled “Victorian travellers, Greek hotels, and Uneasy Hospitalities.”…

REVICTO at (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference 1432 374 REVICTO

REVICTO at (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference

We are very happy to announce that three members of the REVICTO team will be presenting their papers at the international conference (E)motion in Changing Worlds, which will be held in Thessaloniki (3-5 November 2023). The conference is organized by the Department of English Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,…

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 Press, 1821-1897” is a bibliographical aid to researchers of nineteenth-century Greece. It presents a selection of primary sources drawn from the Victorian periodical press that relate to Modern Greece and…

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 Mitsi will give a keynote lecture entitled “Unfashionable Women Travellers and Nineteenth-century Greek Fashions.” Mathilde Pyrli will present her paper “‘What Says the Villain?’ British Travellers Representing Brigandage in Nineteenth-Century…

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 April 2, 2023, at Barnard College in New York City). Her paper is titled “Greek Matrons, Maidens and Heroines in Victorian Periodicals” and will be presented on the first day of…

REVICTO at BAVS2022 1361 843 REVICTO

REVICTO at BAVS2022

We are very pleased to announce that our team member, Tatiana Kontou, will present a paper entitled ‘Photography, Play and Marie Spartali Stillman’ in the BAVS2022 international Conference. The Conference is organized by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and will take place in Birmingham, on 1-3 September 2022. You may browse the full…

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