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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163926103321

Autore

Cornick Martyn

Titolo

French political travel writing in the inter-war years : radical departures / / Martyn Cornick, Martin Hurcombe, and Angela Kershaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

0-203-78279-8

1-135-10871-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Collana

Routledge Research in Travel Writing ; ; 15

Altri autori (Persone)

HurcombeMartin

KershawAngela

Disciplina

840.932

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. From the grand tour to the political tourist : Italy and the Encounter with Homo fascista / Martin Hurcombe -- 2. Out of chaos, order : Latinity and the Iberian dictatorships / Martin Hurcombe -- 3. The new Soviet woman and the French debate on gender in the 1920s / Angela Kershaw -- 4. The journey to the USSR in the 1930s : apology, apocrypha, apostasy / Angela Kershaw -- 5. Towards totalitarianism : French travel writing around the Nazi seizure of power / Martyn Cornick -- 6. Excursions and alarums : the new Germany / Martyn Cornick -- 7. Political peregrinations, the journey home, and the sense of self : functions of political travel writing in inter-war France / Angela Kershaw, Martin Hurcombe, and Martyn Cornick.