"Roving Englishwomen": Greece in women's travel writing.(Critical Essay) From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: June 1, 2002| Author: Mitsi, Efterpi | COPYRIGHT 2002 University of Manitoba, Mosaic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This essay examines British women's travel writing on Greece as the configuration of gender, imperialism, and Hellenism. Despite disproving accounts of male travellers, women writers complied with imperialist operations constituting modern Greece as the orient. To encounter and claim the past, they represented the present as alien and degenerate.

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