Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road

ISBN-13: 9781032136837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 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.

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).