Travel narrative and the ends of modernityx analysis

Over the past century narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation world wars the demise of European empires and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present addressing the work of canonical authors such as T E Lawrence W H Auden and Rebecca West best sellers by Peter Fleming and H V Morton and texts by Colin Thubron Andrew X Pham Rosemary Mahoney and others It argues that the genre s most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence cultural upheaval and decline It will interest scholars and students of travel writing modernism and postmodernism English and American literature and the history and sociology of travel Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity