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

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

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

A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.