Abroad [[electronic resource] ] : British literary traveling between the Wars / / Paul Fussell

• Autore: Fussell Paul <1924-2012.>
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1980
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 820/.9/355
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Travel in literature; Authors, English - 20th century - Travel; British - Travel - Foreign countries - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. 229-239 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Frozen Oranges -- Nowhere to Go -- I Hate It Here -- The Passport Nuisance -- All These Frontiers -- From Exploration to Travel to Tourism -- The Travel Atmosphere -- Graham Greene's Parallel Journey -- One of the Cheapest Ways of Living -- The Englishness of It All -- Sancte Roberte, Ora pro Nobis -- L'Amour de Voyage -- See It with Someone You Like -- Norman Douglas's Temporary Attachments -- That Splendid Enclosure -- The New Heliophily -- The Places of D. H. Lawrence -- Little Pots of Excrement for Sale -- Evelyn Waugh's Moral Entertainments -- Travel Books as Literary Phenomena -- The End -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
• Titolo autorizzato: Abroad
• ISBN: 1-280-43915-7; 1-4237-3822-5; 0-19-802032-5; 1-60129-575-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823250303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II