Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination / Vesna Goldsworthy.

Contents 'And what should I do in Illyria?': English literature and the Balkans -- Byron's children: literary perceptions of the Balkans in the nineteenth century -- The Balkans in popular fiction. Prisoners of Zenda: the imagined states of the Balkans ; The Balkan threat: vampires, spies, murder and the Orient Express : Dracula and the Balkan gothic, Balkan settings of the spy novel, On the Orient Express route -- War and diplomacy in the new Ruritania: comic visions of the Balkans. Bernard Shaw's Bulgaria ; Saki's lost Sanjak ; E.M. Forester's passage to 'the heart of Bosnia' ; Lawrence Durrell and his predecessors: British diplomats in the Balkans ; Evelyn Waugh: an English officer with the partisans -- Spectres of war: representations of the 'real' Balkans. Edith Durham and the Balkan tangle ; Rebecca West travels east ; Olivia Manning's Balkan cityscapes ; 'Why the Balkans attract women' -- Reclaiming Balkan Erewhons.
Local noteLittle-316654--3051310196983
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [234]-245) and index.
LCCN 98084046
ISBN0300073127

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Joyner General Stacks PR129.B35 G65 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold