A01=Robert Burden
Adela Quested
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Almayer's Folly
Almayer’s Folly
american
Author_Robert Burden
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSBF
Category=DSBH
Category=DSK
caves
class
Conrad's Writing
Conrad’s Writing
COP=United Kingdom
cultural identity crisis
Daisy Miller
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
ethnographic critique
Express Train
fiction
howards
Howards End
Isabel Archer
Lambert Strether
Language_English
Lawrence's Writing
Lawrence’s Writing
leisure
literary expatriates
LTF.
Madame De Vionnet
marabar
Marabar Caves
modernist fiction analysis
Modernist Travel Writing
Mr Noon
Mrs Moore
Mrs Touchett
narrative mobility
Newland Archer
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Pamela Knights
political
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
Ralph Marvell
representation of otherness
softlaunch
travel and identity in modernist literature
Travel Fiction
Travel Writing
unconscious
Wharton's Critique
Wharton's Fiction
Wharton's Writing
Wharton’s Critique
Wharton’s Fiction
Wharton’s Writing
writing
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472452863
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.
Dr Robert Burden retired in 2010 as Reader in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has published books on Conrad and Lawrence, is the co-editor of Landscape and Englishness, and is the founding editor of the Spatial Practices series. He resides in southern Germany, where he works as an independent scholar.
