Burton, Stacy.

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

820.932 BUR-T