Travel, Modernism and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781472452863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 278 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. 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 character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.

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.