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11/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

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

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…

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05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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…

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01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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…

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26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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…

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06/11/2020

News

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

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.)…

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15/09/2020

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

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…

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30/08/2020

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

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…

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31/07/2020

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

REVICTO in NAVSA 2020! [postponed for Nov. 2021] https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-1.jpg 910 506 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 29/05/2020 12/06/2020

29/05/2020

News

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

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…

Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture

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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