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Author Burton, Stacy.

Title Travel narrative and the ends of modernity / Stacy Burton, University of Nevada.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Contents Introduction: Critical paradigms and problems -- The privilege -and problem- of narrative authority -- Modernist and postmodernist travels -- Nostalgia and the spectacle of modernity -- Perpetual wartime -- The allure of authenticity.
Summary Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English.
Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Travel in literature.
Travel in literature.
Travel writing -- History.
Travel writing.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Burton, Stacy. Travel narrative and the ends of modernity 9781107039315 (DLC) 2013020641 (OCoLC)849740793
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