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Romania Redefined in British Travel Narratives

Dimitrios Kassis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

121 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036441463 (ISBN)

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Remaining in relative obscurity until the early nineteenth century, the Danube Principalities were persistently viewed as a region inhabited by citizens of the Ottoman Empire that epitomised all the negative qualities attached to Eastern Europe: having no direct connection to the Greek and Slavic cultures that bordered Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, Romanians were often subjected to the most severe scrutiny by British travellers who ventured into this part of the Balkan Peninsula. In juxtaposition with other Balkan nations such as the Greeks and Serbians whose national struggle was met with the sympathy of European intellectuals, the Romanian-speaking populations were often demonised, persistently ignored, or systematically represented on the basis of their state of vassalage to the nearby empires. This volume pertains to the representations of Romania in ten British travelogues which approached Romanianness from different angles: triggering the image of the decadent Oriental Other, the Romanian political context was explored in tune with the interests of the British expansionist agenda and through the lens of the Anglo-Saxon racial discourse that occupied a prevalent position in Victorian imagination.

Dimitrios Kassis holds a PhD from the Faculty of English Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He received a Master's degree in Education Studies (with Distinction) from Roehampton University in London. In addition, he holds a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He speaks 24 foreign languages and his academic interests are connected with travel literature, translation and language studies. He has published ten monographs, including: Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature, American Travellers in Scandinavia, Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature, Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers' Discourse, Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature, Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature, Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature. He is currently working as an English teacher in the public sector.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781036441463 / 9781036441463
Zustand	Neuware