Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad

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As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad, by David Farley, addresses this gap by examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the techniques and stylistic innovations of modernism in their travel narratives to variously engage the political, social, and cultural milieu of the years between the world wars. Modernist Travel Writing argues that the travel book is a crucial genre for understanding the development of modernism in the years between the wars, despite the established view that travel writing during the interwar period was largely an escapist genre—one in which writers hearkened back to the realism of nineteenth-century literature in order to avoid interwar anxiety. Farley analyzes works that exist on the margins of modernism, generically and geographically, works that have yet to receive the critical... Content: Acknowledgments Introduction: Modernism and Travel Writing between the Wars 1. "Damn the Partition!": Ezra Pound and Modern Travel 2. E . E. Cummings: Intourist in the Unworld 3. Wyndham Lewis in Morocco: A Satiric Enterprise 4. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Quality of Visibility in Yugoslavia Conclusion: Aftermaths and Late Modernism Notes Bibliography Index.