Wanderers

ISBN-13: 9781032185965 / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str.

David Brown Morris

Opis

This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers.

Spis treści

1. Don’t Fence Me In  2. Wanderers and Walkers  3. The Happy Wanderer  4. Wandering as Punishment  5. Nomadlands  6. What Is Called Wandering?  7. I’m Going Nowhere  8. Nomad Thought  9. Sideward Glances  10. Mind-Wandering  11. Romantic Wandering  12. Travelers, Tourists, and Tramps  13. Drift and Dérive  14. The Wandering Jew  15. Women Who Wander  16. Gypsy in my Soul  17. Lines, Circles, and Boxes  18. Wordsworth’s Wanderers  19. The Fallen  20. Wandering While Black  21. Accidental Wanderers  22. Wandering Eros  23. Wandering and Wondering  24. A Migratory Species?  25. Leaving Home  26. The End of the Road

O autorze

David Brown Morris is a writer-scholar, and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA. He is very widely published, including two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century studies, and is internationally known for contributions in pain medicine. The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and initiates a trilogy that includes Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1997) and Eros and Illness (2017).