1st Edition

Wanderers Literature, Culture and the Open Road

By David Brown Morris Copyright 2022
156 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers.   Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme... Read more
    1. Don’t Fence Me In  2. Wanderers and Walkers  3. The Happy Wanderer  4. Wandering as Punishment  5. Nomadlands  6. What Is Called Wandering?  7. I’m Going Nowhere  8. Nomad Thought  9. Sideward Glances  10. Mind-Wandering  11. Romantic Wandering  12. Travelers, Tourists, and Tramps  13. Drift and Dérive  14. The Wandering Jew  15. Women Who Wander  16. Gypsy in my Soul  17. Lines, Circles, and Boxes  18. Wordsworth’s Wanderers  19. The Fallen  20. Wandering While Black  21. Accidental Wanderers  22. Wandering Eros  23. Wandering and Wondering  24. A Migratory Species?  25. Leaving Home  26. The End of the Road

Biography

David Brown Morris is a writer-scholar, and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA. He is very widely published, including two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century studies, and is internationally known for contributions in pain medicine. The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and initiates a trilogy that includes Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1997) and Eros and Illness (2017).