Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road / David Brown Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, David B., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge focus on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomads in literature.

Nomads in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Don't fence me in

2. Wanderers and walkers

3. The happy wanderer

4. Wandering as punishment

5. Nomadlands

6. What is called wandering?

7. I'm going nowhere

8. Nomad thought

9. Sideward glances

10. Mind-wandering

11. Romantic wandering

12. Travelers, tourists, and tramps

13. The art of drifting

14. The Wandering Jew

15. Women who wander

16. Gypsy in my soul

17. Lines, circles, and boxes

18. Wordsworth's wanderers

19. The fallen

20. Wandering while black

21. Accidental wanderers

22. Wandering Eros

23. Wandering and wondering

24. A migratory species?

25. Leaving home

26. The end of the road.

Notes:

"Routledge Focus"--from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Brown Morris, David. Wanderers

ISBN:

9781032136837

1032136839

9781032185965

1032185961

OCLC:

1272882650