Burton, Stacy
Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity / By Stacy Burton - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - ix, 255p.
Includes bibliography and index.
Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience. Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why. This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present, addressing the work of canonical authors such as T. E. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and Rebecca West; best-sellers by Peter Fleming and H. V. Morton; and texts by Colin Thubron, Andrew X. Pham, Rosemary Mahoney, and others. It argues that the genre's most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence, cultural upheaval, and decline. It will interest scholars and students of travel writing, modernism and postmodernism, English and American literature, and the history and sociology of travel.
English.
9781107539754
Travel writing--Literary and cultural aspects--History and criticism
Modernism (Literature)--Influence on travel narratives--Studies
Travel narratives--Social and cultural dimensions--Literary analysis
Literature and society--Impact of travel writing--Studies
Postmodernism--Philosophical and literary intersections--Influence on travel literature
Exploration in literature--Themes and representations--Analysis
910.41 / BUR-T
Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity / By Stacy Burton - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - ix, 255p.
Includes bibliography and index.
Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience. Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why. This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present, addressing the work of canonical authors such as T. E. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and Rebecca West; best-sellers by Peter Fleming and H. V. Morton; and texts by Colin Thubron, Andrew X. Pham, Rosemary Mahoney, and others. It argues that the genre's most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence, cultural upheaval, and decline. It will interest scholars and students of travel writing, modernism and postmodernism, English and American literature, and the history and sociology of travel.
English.
9781107539754
Travel writing--Literary and cultural aspects--History and criticism
Modernism (Literature)--Influence on travel narratives--Studies
Travel narratives--Social and cultural dimensions--Literary analysis
Literature and society--Impact of travel writing--Studies
Postmodernism--Philosophical and literary intersections--Influence on travel literature
Exploration in literature--Themes and representations--Analysis
910.41 / BUR-T