Travel, Modernism and Modernity
Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local charact…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-00648-0
- EAN: 9781317006480
- Produktnummer: 20171443
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'524 KB
Über den Autor
Dr Robert Burden retired in 2010 as Reader in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has published books on Conrad and Lawrence, is the co-editor of Landscape and Englishness, and is the founding editor of the Spatial Practices series. He resides in southern Germany, where he works as an independent scholar.
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