Travel and modernist literature : sacred and ethical journeys / / Alexandra Peat
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| Autore: |
Peat Alexandra <1976-, >
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| Titolo: |
Travel and modernist literature : sacred and ethical journeys / / Alexandra Peat
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/32 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| English literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Modernism (Literature) | |
| Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | |
| Travel in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Spiritual Ethics of Modernist Pilgrimage; 1 Initiatory Pilgrimage: The Female Pilgrim Comes of Age in Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond, E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out; 2 Acquisitive Pilgrimage: Renouncing the Quest in Henry James's The American and The Ambassadors and E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| 3 Wandering Pilgrimage: Mobile Expatriatism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and Claude McKay's Banjo4 Imaginary Pilgrimage: Home and Exile in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, Joyce Cary's To Be a Pilgrim and Virginia Woolf's The Years; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically, Peat considers the ethical dimensions of modernist travel from two distinct vantages. The first focuses on the relationship between the secular and the sacred in modernist travel literature, arguing that the recurrent narrative of secular travel is haunted by a desire for spiritual transcendence. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Travel and modernist literature |
| ISBN: | 1-136-91181-2 |
| 1-136-91182-0 | |
| 1-282-93026-5 | |
| 9786612930263 | |
| 0-203-84329-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459263703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; v. 15.