Alexandra Peat

Travel and Modernist Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Sacred and Ethical Journeys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. The second posits modernist travel fiction as a potentially positive example of transcultural relations, consciously arguing against the received notion that travel during an imperial era is always by nature itself imperialist. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the transnational nature of modernism and the various global flows traced by modernist literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136911811
• Artikelnr.: 42977346

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Peat is Assistant Professor of English at University of Toronto at Scarborough.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spiritual Ethics of Modern 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 Banjo 4: Imaginative
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