Temperamental journeys : essays on the modern literature of travel / edited by Michael Kowalewski.

Other author Kowalewski, Michael.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©1992.
Descriptionvii, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American prose literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
English prose literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
Voyages and travels--Historiography.
Americans--Travel. --Historiography.
British--Travel. --Historiography.
Travel in literature.

Contents Journeys into Kansas / William Least Heat-Moon -- Women and journeys : inner and outer / Mary Morris -- Travel / Rockwell Gray -- Travel and writing / Michel Butor -- Travel and the British literary imaginations of the twenties and thirties / Paul Fussell -- The guidebook industry / Robert Foulke -- Romancing the facts in American travel writing / Terry Caesar -- Tourism and postwar American poetry / Robert Von Hallberg -- Paul Theroux and the poetry of departures / Elton Glaser -- The wilds of New Jersey : John McPhee as travel writer / David Espey -- Joan Didion and the problem of journalistic travel writing / Mark Z. Muggli -- More names on Inscription Rock : travel writers on the Great Plains in the eighties / Nancy Cook -- Old journeys revisited : aspects of postwar English travel writing / Jacinta Matos -- The travel writer and the text : "my giant goes with me wherever I go " / Heather Henderson -- A boat swamped with abstractions : reading Raban's river / Roger George -- Perspectives on Abroad in Spender and Hockney's China diary / Charisse Gendron.
Local noteLittle-281962
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-356).
LCCN 91026602
ISBN0820314161 (alk. paper)
ISBN0820314315 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS366.T73 T4 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold