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Edward Thomas as a Travel Book Writer.
- Source :
- Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies; 2023, Issue 41, p55-69, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to examine Edward Thomas's literary representations of his walks and bicycle rides from the perspective of the development of the genre of the travel book in Britain. The paper provides a brief outline of the history of the synergy and friction of travel books with the genres of the novel and the autobiography, and the ways in which the developing naturalist and pedestrian discourses influenced travel books and travel accounts. A key argument constructed and developed in the second part of the paper is that the combination of Thomas's dissatisfaction with the loose collage-like nebulousness of his early travel accounts from Beautiful Wales (1905) to The South Country (1909) and his wide knowledge of 19th-century British travel writers resulted in two 'conventional' travel books The Icknield Way (1913) and In Pursuit of Spring (1914), in which Thomas relied on such standard generic features as the diary format and the central role of the narrative persona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POETRY (Literary form)
TRAVEL guidebooks
TRAVEL literature
CULTURAL identity
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23006250
- Issue :
- 41
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174432572
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.15290/CR.2023.41.2.04