Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.

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Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a n

As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing: Intellect

This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.