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Abroad : British Literary Traveling between the Wars.
Title:
Abroad : British Literary Traveling between the Wars.
Author:
Fussell, Paul.
ISBN:
9780198020325
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Frozen Oranges -- Nowhere to Go -- I Hate It Here -- The Passport Nuisance -- All These Frontiers -- From Exploration to Travel to Tourism -- The Travel Atmosphere -- Graham Greene's Parallel Journey -- One of the Cheapest Ways of Living -- The Englishness of It All -- Sanete Roberte, Ora pro Nobis -- L'Amour de Voyage -- See It with Someone You Like -- Norman Douglas's Temporary Attachments -- That Splendid Enclosure -- The New Heliophily -- The Places of D. H. Lawrence -- Little Pots of Excrement for Sale -- Evelyn Waugh's Moral Entertainments -- Travel Books as Literary Phenomena -- The End -- Sources -- Index.
Abstract:
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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