Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goldsworthy, Vesna
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Balkan Peninsula > Foreign public opinion, British. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Balkan Peninsula > In literature. Imperialism in literature.

Table of Contents:

'And what should I do in Illyria?': English literature and the Balkans
Byron's children: literary perceptions of the Balkans in the nineteenth century
The Balkans in popular fiction. Prisoners of Zenda: the imagined states of the Balkans ; The Balkan threat: vampires, spies, murder and the Orient Express : Dracula and the Balkan gothic, Balkan settings of the spy novel, On the Orient Express route
War and diplomacy in the new Ruritania: comic visions of the Balkans. Bernard Shaw's Bulgaria ; Saki's lost Sanjak ; E.M. Forester's passage to 'the heart of Bosnia' ; Lawrence Durrell and his predecessors: British diplomats in the Balkans ; Evelyn Waugh: an English officer with the partisans
Spectres of war: representations of the 'real' Balkans. Edith Durham and the Balkan tangle ; Rebecca West travels east ; Olivia Manning's Balkan cityscapes ; 'Why the Balkans attract women'
Reclaiming Balkan Erewhons.