Professor Roderick Beaton
King s College London

Byron's war: the Greek revolution and the English Romantic imagination

Byron's writings about Greece, and his heroic role in the armed struggle to establish Greece as a modern nation state, will be examined for the first time in the context of recent scholarship on the cultural, historical and ideological background to the Greek revolution (1821-1828). This, in turn, will be situated in the larger context of the subsequent rise of modern nations and nationalism throughout Europe. Byron s contribution to Romantic nationalism, in both literature and politics, will be reassessed through a close reading of the evidence, particularly in Greek.

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