Joseph Conrad: stories of the sea and the land. E.M. Forster: the heuristic value of travel and place. D.H. Lawrence: travel, otherness, and the sense of place. Henry James: journeys of expatriation. Edith Wharton: the aesthetic value of travel.
Biography
Dr Robert Burden retired in 2010 as Reader in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has published books on Conrad and Lawrence, is the co-editor of Landscape and Englishness, and is the founding editor of the Spatial Practices series. He resides in southern Germany, where he works as an independent scholar.
'The tensions between travel and tourism, the authentic local and the stereotype, art and kitsch, are examined perceptively throughout, presenting a persuasive case for the critical and contemplative value of place... this exploration of the ways in which travel shaped the burgeoning consciousness of cultural difference within the modernist movement is a worthy addition to the crowded field of modernist studies.'
Times Literary Supplement
"Robert Burden insightfully highlights several key elements that help to define the parameters of this field of study...Burden has written an advantageously eclectic study that will be of use for students of travel literature, modernist literature, and British and American culture, as well as for readers particularly interested in Conrad, Forster, Lawrence, James, and Wharton."
David Deutsch, University of Alabama, English Literature in Transition 1990-1920, 59:3
