Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913–2013

Eleni Papargyriou teaches at the University of Vienna, having previously lectured at King’s College London (2009–13). She has held research and teaching positions at Oxford, Princeton and the University of Ioannina, Greece. She has published the monograph Reading Games in the Greek Novel (2011) and co-edited Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives Materialities (2015). She has published articles on intertextuality and the novel, the cultural implications of (self)translation, visual modernity and the rapport between literary text and photographic image. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. Semele Assinder studied Classics at Oxford before going to Cambridge to work on her doctoral dissertation, Greece in British Women’s Writing, 1866–1915. During her PhD, she worked in Athens while holding an Onassis Foreigner’s Fellowship; upon completion she took up the British School at Athens’ Macmillan Rodewald Studentship. David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. He is the author of many books and articles on Modern Greek language and literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. He edited Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete (1991) and co-edited Copyists, Collectors, Redactors and Editors: Manuscripts and Editors of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature (2005). He has also edited twenty volumes of the journal Kambos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek (1993–2013). He was Chairman of the Society for Modern Greek Studies (2012–2016).

Semele Assinder/Eleni Papargyriou: Introduction: British Women Writing Greece – Semele Assinder: Beginnings and Endings in Rose Macaulay’s <> – Vassiliki Kolocotroni: Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form – Rowena Fowler/Rose Little:“In a Different Light”: Imagining Greece in Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Pym – Deirdre David: Olivia Manning and the Longed-for City – Laura Vivanco: A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances – James Gifford: Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation – David Wills: Fire and Futility: Contemporary Women Novelists and WWI in Greece – Keli Daskala: Victoria Hislop’s <> (2005): The Reception and Impact of a Publishing Phenomenon in Greece – Eleni Papargyriou:“Perfidious Albion”: Axis Occupation and Civil War in Sofka Zinovieff’s <> – Contributors – Index.