Radicals on the Road : The Politics of English Travel Writing in The 1930s.

By:

Schweizer, Bernard

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813921969

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Radicals on the RoadDDC classification:

820.9355

LOC classification:

PR808.T72 -- S39 2001eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1: George Orwell -- Chapter 2: Evelyn Waugh -- Chapter 3: Graham Greene -- Chapter 4: Rebecca West -- Part Two -- Chapter 5: The Trouble with Dualism: Sites and Issues -- Chapter 6: The Geography of Fear: ''Strange Effects of Space'' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: Therefore, argues Schweizer, traveling during the 1930s was more than just a means to engage the burning political questions of the day: traveling, and in turn travel writing, registered the travelers' growing sense of futility and powerlessness in an especially turbulent world.

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Therefore, argues Schweizer, traveling during the 1930s was more than just a means to engage the burning political questions of the day: traveling, and in turn travel writing, registered the travelers' growing sense of futility and powerlessness in an especially turbulent world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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