Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity

by Stacy Burton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107539757
• ISBN13: 9781107539754
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"