Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters

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.

Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her publications focus on classical reception in English literature, travellers to Greece, and word and image relations. She is the author of Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596-1682 (2017), editor of Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader (2019), and co-editor of six volumes, including Hotel Modernisms (2023) and Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (2019). She was the Principal Investigator of the research project ’Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture’ (2019-2023) funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation.

Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research and publications focus on representations of gender, space, and mobility in nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 (2015), and she has co-edited six books including Hotel Modernisms (2023), Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (2019), and Henry James and The Supernatural (2011). Her research project, ’Hotels and the Modern Subject, 1890-1940’ (2019-2023), was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation, and she also participated in the project ’Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture.’