Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters

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Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her publications focus on classical reception in English literature travellers to Greece and word and image relations. She is the author of Greece in Early English Travel Writing 15961682 (2017) editor of Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader (2019) and co-editor of six volumes including Hotel Modernisms (2023) and Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (2019). She was the principal investigator of the research project Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture (20192023) funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation.Anna Despotopoulou is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research and publications focus on representations of gender space and mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Women and the Railway 18501915 (2015) and she has co-edited six books including Hotel Modernisms (2023) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (2019) and Henry James and The Supernatural (2011). Her research project Hotels and the Modern Subject 18901940 (20192023) was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and she also participated in the project Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture.