Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin,...
Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: t...
As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. "Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad, " by David Farley, addresses this gap by examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the techniques and stylistic innovations of modernism in their travel narratives to variously engage the political, social, and cultural milieu of the years between the world wars.
"Modernist Travel Writing" argues that the travel book is a crucial genre for understanding the development of modernism in the years between...
As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. "Modernist Travel Writ...