Inventing Ruritania - Softcover

Goldsworthy, Vesna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849042527 ISBN 13: 9781849042529

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Vesna Goldsworthy is professor of English literature and creative writing at Kingston University and the author of several widely translated and award-winning volumes. She published a best-selling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries, which was serialized in The Times and was chosen as a Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4. She is also the author of a Crashaw Prize-winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika, named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2011 by The Times.

From Library Journal:

This scholarly study examines how 19th-century writers and later filmmakers have helped to shape Western perception of the Balkans. Goldsworthy (English, Birkbeck Coll.) presents writers from Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Anthony Hope (Ruritania) to Graham Greene, Lord Byron, and George Bernard Shaw, to name a few. Goldsworthy shows how an identifiable Balkan identity emerged from these writers that has held sway over the past century. The result is what she calls a "narrative colonization" of the BalkansAthat is, its literary exploitation, which has resulted in its continued misrepresentation. While her thesis is interesting, it seems to follow the current trend toward politicizing literary studies, making her work of interest mainly to academic collections.ARon Ratliff, Chapman H.S. Lib., KS
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About this edition

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849042527
• ISBN 13: 9781849042529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288