Abroad : British literary traveling between the Wars /

Abroad : British literary traveling between the Wars / Paul Fussell.

A eulogy for the lost art of traveling and an evaluation of the British writers who authored travel books.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
Subjects:
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
British > Foreign countries > History > 20th century.
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
Table of 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.

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