商品簡介
"Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism that challenged the ethnographic project of empire"--
作者簡介
Dr Robert Burden retired in 2010 as Reader in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has published books on Conrad and Lawrence, is the co-editor of Landscape and Englishness, and is the founding editor of the Spatial Practices series. He resides in southern Germany, where he works as an independent scholar.
