Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1996.

[xiii], 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.

A note to readers -- Prologue -- The nation's dream-work -- The formal imagination, I: The back roads of development from enlightenment to bureaucracy -- The formal imagination, II: Natural history and the national pedagogy - the case of Korais -- The punishment of philhellenism -- The phatasms of writing, I: Makriyiannis and the miracles of national memory -- The phatasms of writing, II: Nostalgia for Utopia - the idolatries of Seferis -- Homologia Apologia: the writing of national history -- Works cited -- Index.

Nationalism -- Greece -- History.

Greece -- History -- 19th century.

Greece -- History -- 20th century.

Enlightenment.

Nation-state.

Philhellenism.

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