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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Travel in literature.

Authors, English--20th century--Travel.

Authors, English.

British--Travel--Foreign countries--History--20th century.

British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography: p. 229-239 and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-43915-7

1-4237-3822-5

0-19-802032-5

1-60129-575-8

OCLC:

191937008