Abroad

British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

By: Paul Fussell

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Paperback | 1 September 1982

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260 Pages

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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.

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"This is the most interesting and insightful book that I have read on travel writing, and my students seem to agree."--Jonathan Smith, Texas A & M University "Abroad is an exemplary piece of criticism. It is immensely readable. It bristles with ideas. It disinters a regal lost masterpiece from the library stacks. It admits a whole area of writing-at last!-to its proper place in literary history."--The New York Times Book Review "What Fussell has done-brightly, wittily, with bravura display of critical methods-is to reclaim for travel writing a large measure of literary respectability."--Newsweek "[Fussell's] book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasure of the open road."--Time "An absolutely dazzling continent of sociology, literary criticism, cultural history, biography and amusing anecdote, so borderlessly fused that we hardly realize what great intellectual distances we are covering."The New York Times "[A] witty book that bristles with outrageous assertions....Fussell obviously enjoys the act of writing about his reading, which is what makes the book so lively."--The Tribune (London)

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Travel & Holidays Travel Writing History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Frozen Oranges	p. 3
Nowhere to Go	p. 9
I Hate It Here	p. 15
The Passport Nuisance	p. 24
All These Frontiers	p. 31
From Exploration to Travel to Tourism	p. 37
The Travel Atmosphere	p. 50
Graham Greene's Parallel Journey	p. 65
One of the Cheapest Ways of Living	p. 71
The Englishness of It All	p. 73
Sancte Roberte, Ora pro Nobis	p. 79
L'Amour de Voyage	p. 113
See It with Someone You Like	p. 117
Norman Douglas's Temporary Attachments	p. 119
That Splendid Enclosure	p. 130
The New Heliophily	p. 137
The Places of D. H. Lawrence	p. 141
Little Pots of Excrement for Sale	p. 164
Evelyn Waugh's Moral Entertainments	p. 171
Travel Books as Literary Phenomena	p. 202
The End	p. 215
Sources	p. 229
Index	p. 241
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British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

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