Georgia Toumara
g.toumara.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Travelling in the Byronic Aura: Cliché and Imaginary Geographies in Late Romantic and Victorian Travelogues to Greece and Italy
Research Summary
'The Byronic Cliché in Late Romantic and Victorian Travelogues to Greece and Italy'
My research focuses on the intersection of late Romantic and Victorian traveller tropes and the Byronic legacy. My interest lies specifically in portrayals of and interactions with landscape and the Byronic cliché images that pervade travel accounts (travelogues, guidebooks, journals etc.)
Research interests
- Travel Literature of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Romantic Legacies
- Representation of Ruins
- Gothic Imagery of Landscapes
- Material Culture
- Visual Clichés in Nineteenth-Century Illustrations
Publications
Toumara, G. (2023) Review of: Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination, by Béatrice Laurent. The Journal of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research: Romance, Revolution and Reform, 5(1), pp. 137-141. [Book Review]
Grants
Research Support Award (RSA), College of Arts, University of Glasgow (February 2023)
Archival visit to the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Conference
Greece in Victorian Popular Culture International Conference Revicto Project- Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, 8th-9th April 2022
'The Body as Visual Cacophony in Travel Accounts of Late Nineteenth-Century Greece'
Fireside Tales of Terror: The Gothic and Winter- University of Warwick, 15-16 December 2022
‘They heard a sound like sobbing in the breeze’: The Greek Gothic and the Pagan Christmas of Sir James Rennell Rodd
Additional Information
Peer reviewer for FORUM (Issue 32: ‘The Aftermath’) July 2021, University of Edinburgh
