Travel narrative and the ends of modernity /
Stacy Burton, University of Nevada.
- ix, 255 pages : illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Introduction: Critical paradigms and problems -- The privilege -and problem- of narrative authority -- Modernist and postmodernist travels -- Nostalgia and the spectacle of modernity -- Perpetual wartime -- The allure of authenticity.
9781107039315 (hardback : alk. paper)
Travelers' writings, English Travelers' writings, American Modernism (Literature) Postmodernism (Literature) Travel in literature. Travel writing