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• Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture” (REVICTO)

  “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture” (REVICTO) is a project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the “First Call for HFRI Research Projects to support Faculty members and researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant”. This project will investigate the ways in which British Victorian popular literature and culture represented and interpreted nineteenth-century Greece in magazines, journals, and other publications, with an aim to contribute to the scholarship on the cultural affiliations between Britain and Greece in the Victorian period. An investigation of the literary and cultural exchange between Britain and Greece in the period of the latter’s formation as a nation state may also lead to revisiting questions such as: To what extent does the proliferation of literary and popular texts on Modern Greece forge a new discourse and ideology about Greece and its equivocal position within Europe? Is there an alternative discourse to the dichotomy between a romanticized or reviled Greece? Our research seeks not only to explore the representation of Greece in Victorian culture, but also to trace the literary and cultural exchange between Britons and Greeks in that period, documenting an active encounter rather than a passive reception. Moreover, our project will be facilitated by the advance in digital humanities, especially in Victorian Studies, as many nineteenth-century popular sources, such as journals, newspapers, and ephemera have been digitized; in fact, our research intends to be part of the field of digital literary scholarship. During the three year duration of the project (2020-2023), we plan to organize conferences and research workshops as well as disseminate our research through publications and presentations at international conferences. From the program's description.

• Revolution and empire in the Mediterranean: The Greek Revolution in context

  Conference

• The contribution of European philhellenism in collecting and publishing Greek folk songs

  Conference presentation

• The Ionian connection: British colonialism and the Greek Revolution

  Conference presentation

• New interdisciplinary perspectives on the Greek Revolution

  Conference
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  Fair Greece, sad relic: Philological philhellenism from Shakespeare to Byron (2nd revised edition)

  Book

• European liberalism and the Greek War of Independence: Panel discussion

  Speech/Lecture
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  Am I not a Greek? The emergence of the ideal type of "modern Greek" from Thomas Hope's Anastasius (1819) to Percy Shelley's Hellas (1822)

  Speech/Lecture

• The Greek Revolution as an imperial event: How the Ottoman, French, and Russian empires produced a national uprising, 1797–1830

  Speech/Lecture

• The Greek War of Independence in the British press: News reports, philhellenism, politics

  Conference presentation

• Transformations of liberal philhellenism in mid-nineteenth century Greece: A diplomat takes a stance

  Conference presentation

• How did the Greeks win?

  Speech/Lecture