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June of, 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" ofand 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.
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Herbert The Times, John Augustus O'Shea 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 island's 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 inthis 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.
Marinos Pourgouris is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, He is currently Chair of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, a Department which he joined in, He has previously taught for the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Modern Greek Studies Programs at Brown Universityand Rutgers University, He is the author of Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis Ashgate/Routledgeand the editor of the volume Odysseus Elytis: Poetry, Theory, Reception in Greek, Ypsilon.
He has also co edited, with Sanja Bahun Radunović, the volume The Avant garde and the Margin, His most recent book The Cyprus Fre Marinos Pourgouris is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus.
He is currently Chair of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, a Department which he joined in, He has previously taught for the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Modern Greek Studies Programs at Brown Universityand Rutgers University, He is the author of Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis Ashgate/Routledgeand the editor of the volume Odysseus Elytis: Poetry, Theory, Reception in Greek, Ypsilon.
He has also co edited, with Sanja Bahun Radunović, the volume The Avant garde and the Margin, His most recent book The Cyprus Frenzy ofand the British PressLexington/Rowman and Littlefield,centers on the public frenzy in England, after the acquisition of Cyprus by Britain in theth century.
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