Author: Marinos Pourgouris File Type: pdf In June of 1878, the British Empire acquired the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus, after a secret agreement with the Ottoman Empire. The occupation of Cyprus was officially announced by the British government about a month later and what followed was an unprecedented mania with the island, which manifested itself through the publication of dozens of books and articles, the composition of poems, novels, and music pieces, the staging of operas and ballets, the appearance of dozens of advertisements in newspapers, the dispatch of special correspondents to the island, the announcement of forthcoming tours, etc. This book examines the Cyprus Frenzy of 1878 and the way it was expressed in both major and provincial newspapers in Victorian Britain. It follows the six main special correspondents who were commissioned to cover the occupation and who traveled to the island for that purpose Archibald Forbes (The Daily News), St. Leger Algernon Herbert (The Times), John Augustus OShea (The London Evening Standard), Edward Henry Vizetelly (The Glasgow Herald), Samuel Pasfield Oliver (The Illustrated London News), and Hepworth Dixon (for several provincial newspapers). What is pertinent in the investigation of Victorian journalistic practices is the relationship between these correspondents and the military establishment, which was tasked with the duty of forming the first British government on the island. In this context, General Garnet Wolseley, who served as the islands first High Commissioner, and his famous clique of associates are central characters in the story of Cyprus colonization. The book further considers the role of advertisements in propagating colonial discourse and it examines Letters to the Editor, published in major newspapers of the time, as a tool in the investigation of the Victorian readers reception and response to the occupation. By concentrating on the history of a very particular eventthe British occupation of Cyprus in 1878this book aspires to scrutinize colonial practices through a close examination of the mechanisms that they put in motion, the networks they utilize, and the fantasies they stir. **Review This is an exciting and uncannily pertinent exploration of a heavily entangled corner in the Eastern Mediterranean Cyprus in and around 1878 toward the formation of the colonialist imaginary, a phrase Marinos Pourgouris deploys with great sophistication as it testifies to complex, indeed divided, valuations of colonial possessions in the context of Philhellenism and Orientalism. Exactingly attentive to scholarly, literary, and journalistic writing, delving into a wealth of archives, Pourgouris beautifully shows the constellation of forces that energized the British public, seized (and distracted) its attention, seduced its imagination, and captured its consumerist fantasies. An urgent compendium of lessons yet learned. (Gil Anidjar, Professor in the Departments of Religion, the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), Columbia University) The political and diplomatic story of the British occupation of Cyprus in 1878 has often been told, but in this book Marinos Pourgouris vividly and freshly describes it in more human, everyday and broadly sociological terms. His fascinating account of the journalists who covered the event provides not only a hugely interesting picture of the Cyprus they encountered, but of the cultural complexity that shaped their responses and fed back into British society. This book shows how from the start Cyprus occupied a special and intimate place in the metropolitan imagination, with consequences that were longlasting and indeed are still current today. (Robert Holland, Kings College London) Characterized by the British claim to the ancient Greek inheritance and by an administrative apparatus convinced of its ability to modernize and civilize, the Cyprus frenzy bore singular clues to the mutually reinforcing narratives and images that circulated among British politicians, military personnel, journalists, academics, travelers, and ordinary citizens alike. In this copiously documented and lucidly presented account, Marinos Pourgouris opens our eyes to the extensive discourse networks through which empire became an intimate part of the British national imagination. (Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University) About the Author Marinos Pourgouris is assistant professor of literary theory and modern Greek studies at the University of Cyprus.

Author: Hein Viljoen File Type: pdf Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Kruger, Susan Meyer, Adele Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Author: Katrin Beushausen File Type: pdf This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrican Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatres continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatres public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre. **Book Description Provides fresh perspectives on the early modern public as an audience trained by theatre. Focusing on the period 1642-1660, it offers a new take on the public of the English Revolution and fills in important blanks in the history of the English stage for theatre and literary scholars and historians. About the Author Katrin Beushausen is an independent historian and theatre scholar, and an affiliate of the Freie Universitt Berlin, where she has taught on theatricality, political performance and theatrical publics. Parallel to her academic career, she works as a political campaigner and explores the relation between theatre and the public through site-specific performance projects in the public sphere.

Author: Boris Souvarine File Type: pdf