Travel, Modernism and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367880996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Robert Burden

Opis

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. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of

Spis treści

Joseph Conrad: stories of the sea and the land.  E.M. Forster: the heuristic value of travel and place.  D.H. Lawrence: travel, otherness, and the sense of place. Henry James: journeys of expatriation.  Edith Wharton: the aesthetic value of travel.

O autorze

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.