Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

by Jennifer Wallace

Wallace (English, Cambridge U.) draws on gender studies, ethnic and cultural studies, literary influence and post-colonial theory to evaluate Percy Bysshe Shelley's ideas about Greece and the classical influence. More broadly, she argues that the turbulent and socially-fragmenting Romantic period marked a crucial stage in the reassessment of Greece and its uneasy integration within English culture. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Nonfiction

261 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 1997