Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s
- ISBN-10
- 0813920701
- ISBN-13
- 9780813920702
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Author
- Bernard Schweizer
Description
Schweizer, an independent scholar, explores the travel writing of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Rebecca West. The observations made by these westerners of the lands they visited--Catalonia, Africa, Mexico, and Yugoslavia--provide a range of views perhaps typical for the period. Schweizer's reading concentrates on each authors' politics and their psychological apprehension of the world around them. The psychological theme is explored in the book's second half where Schweizer notes "the inherently dualistic construction of national and international politics" to be found in the writings as well as the authors' anxiety of foreign places, and their sense of the uncanny. c. Book News Inc.
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