TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
T2 - foregrounding the marginal
AU - Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia
PY - 2024/12/9
Y1 - 2024/12/9
N2 - Part one outlines the origins of the volume in a 2021 conference at the British School at Athens and discusses the importance of the theme of ‘marginalisation’. The project is shown to be fundamentally interdisciplinary, specifically located at the cross-roads between classical reception studies, cultural history and material culture studies. The landscape of scholarship relevant to travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece is sketched out. The methodology adopted here is the case study, creating a mosaic of micro-histories and emphasising the small and intimate. A key aim of the volume is to examine the complexity and mixed motivations in travel and encounters with the classical landscape, which disrupt triumphalist narratives both of foreign collecting and of Greek nation-building. Part two offers a narrative arc of the volume as a whole, with detailed readings of the nine chapters highlighting the various ways in which they focus on the theme of the marginal.
AB - Part one outlines the origins of the volume in a 2021 conference at the British School at Athens and discusses the importance of the theme of ‘marginalisation’. The project is shown to be fundamentally interdisciplinary, specifically located at the cross-roads between classical reception studies, cultural history and material culture studies. The landscape of scholarship relevant to travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece is sketched out. The methodology adopted here is the case study, creating a mosaic of micro-histories and emphasising the small and intimate. A key aim of the volume is to examine the complexity and mixed motivations in travel and encounters with the classical landscape, which disrupt triumphalist narratives both of foreign collecting and of Greek nation-building. Part two offers a narrative arc of the volume as a whole, with detailed readings of the nine chapters highlighting the various ways in which they focus on the theme of the marginal.
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003357780
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=isn%3A%209781032413112&rn=1
U2 - 10.4324/9781003357780-1
DO - 10.4324/9781003357780-1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781032413112
SN - 9781032413129
T3 - British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine studies
SP - 1
EP - 21
BT - Travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece
A2 - Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon, Oxon
ER -