Travel and modernist literature : sacred and ethical journeys / Alexandra Peat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peat, Alexandra, 1976-

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 15.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.

Travel in literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xi, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Spiritual ethics of modern pilgrimage

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415872331

0415872332

OCLC:

588998922