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  • Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination

    Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination

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    Book SynopsisThe publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series. The text reflects growing interest in popular literary genres not only among the readers, but mainly in literary research. This still rather under-researched area is now representing fertile grounds for various theoretical approaches. As the publication mainly declares its interest in crime-related genres, its focus on place is justifiable: it reflects the postmodern "spatial turn", manifested in an increased emphasis on the location of crime, not necessarily in the sense of the crime scene itself, but as a socio-geographical place and space. The setting of crime has a specific and well-defined role in the traditional crime genres, but this role has been redefined in the modern versions of crime-related fiction. ranging from educating the reader in certain areas, bringing up current problems, deepening the psychological aspect of individual characters etc. The published volume brings forth various aspects of this new role of place in popular genres centering on crime and gives space to its deeper analysis. It is not the researchers? objective to provide overviews of the history of the theoretical discussion of place and space in literature in general. Instead, although the essays do employ a variety of critical approaches, the collection strives to show practically how place and space is employed in the specific material of the selected works.The seven chapters are written by scholars from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Two essays represent London as a topos and a chronotope in the works by contemporary British writers of crime fiction. The selection is to show how varied the literary London can be, albeit in the often rather formulaic popular genre. The essays also document a shift from the country setting typical for the British Golden Age of detective fiction to the more recent urban focus. One contribution focuses on the genre of spy novel to show how rendering of place and space can contribute to the genre's typical atmosphere of suspense, secrets and disquiet. Four more essays analyze a variety of places and spaces in American crime fiction, crime comics and crime film. All of the places are in some way specific to American milieu – the suburbia, the university campus, the wilderness, a holiday resort with a state park. These essays are designed to show the contemporary variety of places where crime literature (or film) is set and to document a shift from the traditional urban setting of American hard-boiled fiction to a far greater recent diversity.The volume brings together most recent central European research on the topic of place and community in popular imagination. Thus, it represents a unique insight into this growing phenomenon, which can no longer be overlooked by the academic community.

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  • Wine in Old and New Bottles – Critical Paradigms

    Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press Wine in Old and New Bottles – Critical Paradigms

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    Book SynopsisThis volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxist analyses to reader-response, intertextual, and archetypal criticism. Some pieces incorporate the theoretical-philosophical insights of Josiah Royce, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan; others consult Jacques Derrida, Homi Bhabha, and Slavoj Zizek. Apart from Conrad's life and its reflection in his writings, these essays illuminate such thematics as the critique of reality; nationalism; imperial evil; racism; landscape and truth; impressionism; psychological archetypes; doubling and defamiliarization; alienation and selfhood; the uncanny; imaginary identification and the real; ideology as specter; unconditional hospitality; the theory of whirling and veering; and academic teachings of Conrad, both their past character and future possibilities.

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  • Conrad in Italy

    Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press Conrad in Italy

    Book SynopsisConrad in Italy provides international students and researchers with a variety of critical approaches. Richard Ambrosini surveys Conrad's reception within the Italian academy. Franco Marenco's essay on "Heart of Darkness" outlines Conrad's centrality in English Modernism. Alessandro Serpieri deals with Conrad's impressionistic treatment of space in The Secret Agent and other texts. Giuseppe Sertoli focuses on Conrad's debt to the Comtesse de Boigne's Memoires and to James's Portrait of a Lady in the writing of Suspense. Fausto Ciompi investigates the isotopy of dream in Lord Jim and other early novels. Elio Di Piazza reads the The Mirror of the Sea as an inquiry into British and Russian empires. Maria Teresa Chialant's study of "Amy Foster" and "Tomorrow" accounts for the interest of Italian critics in Conrad's minor works. Francesco Marroni unfolds the moral structure of "The Secret Sharer". Nicoletta Vallorani tackles the theme of the double in "The Secret Sharer" from the perspective of the art of photography. Luisa Villa illuminates the complex structure of Chance in the light of Conrad's re-elaboration of the Victorian multi-plot novel. Mario Domenichelli proposes a reading of Conrad's cooperation with Ford. The Inheritors is the subject of Mario Curreli's essay on Conrad's debt to H.G. Wells, Zangwill, and Drumont, while it places the issue of fourth-dimension in the context of European colonialisms. Marialuisa Bignami's survey of Conrad's influence on Primo Levi and Marilena Saracino's intertextual analysis of "Heart of Darkness" and Luigi Guarneri's Tenebre sul Congo are two exercises in dialogic reading which confirm Conrad's well-established reception in Italian culture.Table of ContentsMario Curreli: Introduction Mario Curreli: An Outline of Conrad's Reception in ItalyRichard Ambrosini: "The Battle for Conrad": Inside and Outside Italian Academia in the Years 1924-1960Alessandro Serpieri: Joseph Conrad: Many Landscapes, a Single Space Franco Marenco: "And I saw my mystake": Joseph Conrad and the Narrative of a Critical CenturyFausto Ciompi: Conrad and Dream: Almayer's FollyI, The Nigger of the "Narcissus," Lord JimMaria Teresa Chialant: The Figure of the Outsider in "Amy Foster" and "To-morrow"Mario Domenichelli, Conrad and Hueffer: From Three Collaborative Novels to High ModernismMario Curreli: Conrad's and Ford Four Dimensional Story: "The Inheritors"Elio Di Piazza: The Wind of Empire in Conrad's "rulers iof East and West"Francesco Marroni: Evil and Non-Evil in "The Secret Sharer"Nicoletta Vallorani: The Brotherhood of Twins: Conrad's "The Secret Sharer and Photography"Luisa Villa: Young Powell's Story and Its Conradian Inter-text: Re-reading Chance "for the Plot"Giuseppe Sertoli: Conrad's Portrait of a LadyMarialuisa Bignami: The Presence of Joseph Conrad in Primo Levi's OeuvreMarilena Saracino: "Heart of Darkness" and Tenebre sul Congo: History, Memory and Writing

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  • Joseph Conrad`s Polish Soul – Realms of Memory

    Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press Joseph Conrad`s Polish Soul – Realms of Memory

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    Book SynopsisBorn into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in remote parts of the world. In Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, G. W. Stephen Brodsky seeks to reclaim the essentially Polish sensibility of Conrad's groundbreaking oeuvre. He finds in Conrad's work a distinct Polonism that plays intriguingly with selfhood, freedom, and irony. For Brodsky, Conrad's outlook and writing betray numerous contradictions. Despite the novelist's practical realism, Conrad was drawn to romance, orientalism, and the exotic. Frequently sick, he nevertheless pursued a life at sea. He despised adventurers, yet loved risk. An instinctive skepticism, conservatism, and nationalism complicated his liberalism and respect for humanity, and though he resigned himself to Poland's tragic destiny, Conrad refused to despair over the terribleness of his times. In this incomparable study, Brodsky shows how these inherent aspects of Conrad's personality inform and guide his Polonism, along with the best attributes of his fiction.Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction by George Zbigniew Gasyna Chapter One A Familiar Preface to Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul Chapter Two Under Western Eyes Conrad's Two Pasts-Thirty Years of Critical Misrule and a Renaissance Chapter Three Dispossession Encoded: Conrad as Exile Chapter Four Conrad's Brody Secret Sharers Jozef Korzeniowski, Joseph Roth, and other Children of the Borderland Chapter Five A Janus Gate Conrad's Krakow in Marseille Chapter Six Dogs and Duels: Englishman Conrad's Franco-Polish Honor, Fraudulent and Genuine Chapter Seven Darkness Visible in Conrad's Polish Orient: Anglo-Polish Orientalism and the Exotic in the Malay Tales Chapter Eight An Ironist's Harlequinade: Conrad's Unified Polish Comic Spirit Chapter Nine Saint Roman: Patriotism, Sanctity, and Mytho-History in "Prince Roman" Epilogue End Notes Bibliography

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  • Jin Ping Mei – A Wild Horse in Chinese

    NIAS Press Jin Ping Mei – A Wild Horse in Chinese

    Book SynopsisThe late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form, there being no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. However, it is also seen as something of a wild horse, its graphically explicit depiction of sexuality earning it great notoriety. Although Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, today the novel is considered one of the six classics of Chinese literature. It is thus no surprise that Jin Ping Mei has caught the attention of scholars working in many different fields, places and periods. Unfortunately, the interdisciplinary and transnational exchange has been limited here, in part because of distance and language barriers. The present volume aims to bridge this gap, bringing together the best quality research on Jin Ping Mei by both established and emerging scholars. Not only will it showcase research on Jin Ping Mei but also it will function as a reader, helping future generations to understand and appreciate this important work.

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  • Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java: The Revised Prose Version of C.F. Winter Sr

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  • Words to Win – The Making of a Modern

    Zubaan Words to Win – The Making of a Modern

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    Book SynopsisThe first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife named Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she was eighty-eight years old, the book is a fascinating snapshot of life for women in the nineteenth century. Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last when she was forty-one - ruminates on her very individual understanding of bhakti beliefs as well as the new times that were unfolding around her. Offering a translation of major sections of this remarkable autobiography, Words to Win is a portrait of a woman who wants to compose a life of her own, wishes to present it in the public sphere, and eventually accomplishes just that. The words, in the end, win out. First published in 1999, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Indian history. The classic text is reissued here in a new paperback format.Trade Review"Tanika Sarkar's dissection of the text-the autobiography of an upper-caste East Bengali widow from a family of landlords, who teaches herself to read and write in secrecy as it's a taboo to do so-yields a cracking yarn of social history." (Pothik Ghosh, Outlook)"

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  • Shamrock and Chopsticks: James Joyce in China - a

    City University of Hong Kong Press Shamrock and Chopsticks: James Joyce in China - a

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    Book SynopsisThis book is written by Professor JIN Di, whose translation of ""Ulysses into Chinese"" is now commonly recognized as a substantial, even monumental, work. The text contains three parts. Part I provides an informative context for the Chinese Ulysses and the fascinating story of the origins of Jin's project. In Part II, there is wisdom to offer on the principles of translation, reflecting from the detailed account of the problems on bridging linguistic and cultural barriers during the translation process. The last part recounts the encounter between James Joyce and Chinese culture. This book speaks to readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from Joyceans, literature enthusiasts and translators, to sociologists, communication researchers and general readers.

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  • Developing the Heart: E.M. Forster and India

    City University of Hong Kong Press Developing the Heart: E.M. Forster and India

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    Book SynopsisEnglish novelist E.M. Forster wrote his last and best-loved work, A Passage to India, both as a paean to his love for India and as a tribute to the relationships he formed with Indians.Forster became entranced by the India of the Raj at a young ape, and his love affair with the sub-continent, its princes, and peoples, was to last all his life. At his most socially transgressive, it was with Indians that Forster chose to connect and with whom he put into effect his belief in man's duty to value friendship over state or ideology. His time in India was undoubtedly when he was at his most human and most vulnerable.At once a contemporary reflection on India's rich history and a biographical retelling of Forster's travels through the country in the early 1900s, Developing the Heart delves into the past to better understand the profound impact certain events and people had on his writing. In doing so, it allows readers to look on as Forster matures and softens over time in his behaviour with others as well as with himself. Often using Forster's own words to evoke a vivid landscape, this is the story of the most dramatic and exotic part of the life of one of England's greatest novelists.Table of Contents Part One Masood India Passage Out Bapu Sahib Passage Home Rooms with No View Troubles Private Secretary Kanaya Chhatarpur Going Home England Again A Passage to India Part Two Indian Echoes Broken Promises Two Ends to an Era Broadcasting to India The Longest Journey The Hill of Devi Final Passage

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  • Parallel Visions, Confluent Worlds: Five Comparative Postcolonial Studies of Caribbean and Irish Novels in English, 1925-1965

    University of the West Indies Press Parallel Visions, Confluent Worlds: Five Comparative Postcolonial Studies of Caribbean and Irish Novels in English, 1925-1965

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    Book SynopsisThe Republic of Ireland left the British Commonwealth in 1949. It was traditionally overlooked by developing trends of Commonwealth literary studies from the 1960s, which tended to examine the cultural production of countries still under Commonwealth rule. From the late 1960s onwards, however, scholars of Irish literature and indeed across postcolonial studies have examined Ireland’s unique and comparative literary, historical, cultural and geographical features in relation to the contexts of broader postcolonial debates. To date, nonetheless, there has yet to be a dedicated comparative study of how the specific genre of the Irish novel developed throughout the twentieth century as a means of giving imaginative expression to particular decolonizing processes in Ireland as it disengaged from the dominant discourses of British colonial rule.Ireland’s history is clearly different from that of the former colonies of the British West Indies. Richard McGuire takes this point into account, and in Parallel Visions, Confluent Worlds he investigates how extensively the Irish novel, particularly from the 1920s, expresses forms and themes recognized by many scholars and critics to be key postcolonial concerns in West Indian novels of the same period. The British West Indies serves as a strong suitable comparative case for examination, since it has such an established wealth of study in relation to its postcolonial dimensions. This book compares five pairings of Irish and Caribbean texts that explore issues such as evolving representations of “native” peoples, late-colonial anxiety, the subversive power of women in a patriarchal-imperialist society. Migration, and the experience of growing up amid anti-colonial violence.

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  • Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary

    Springer Verlag, Singapore Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary

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    Book SynopsisThis book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian capitalism as it evolves through Ireland’s 1971 Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular, the book theorises the relationship between space and place in literature through two highly innovative arguments: a focus on the spatial unconscious as a means to assess and track the spatiality of capitalism in the novel form; and the articulation of a regime of space through the perceived, conceived and lived constitution of space. Drawing together concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it explores the dominance of the regime of abstract space in the Australian context. The text also examines the nature and possibilities of place-based strategies of resistance, and concludes by suggesting opportunities for future research and plotting the ways in which The Unknown Industrial Prisoner continues to speak to contemporary Australia.Trade Review“Heino’s project is a compelling one. His efforts to demonstrate the power of literary geography to analyse class and power issues work well in relation to his analysis of The Unidentified Industrial Prisoner. His book is a timely reminder of the power inherent in Australian literature, which still deserves recognition among the ‘old world’ reading publics.” (Dave McLaughlin, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 14 (2), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Space and place in radical geography Chapter 3: Literary geography, the spatial unconscious and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner Chapter 4: Abstract space (with antipodean characteristics?) Chapter 5: The spatial state Chapter 6: Resistance – the struggle for place Chapter 7: The limits to the Home Beautiful Chapter 8: Conclusion

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  • Editorial A Contracorriente 2666: en búsqueda de la totalidad perdida

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    Book SynopsisEs 2666 de Roberto Bolano una novela total? Pueden coexistir fragmentos y totalidades en un mismo libro? Hay una columna vertebral que estructure la multitud de espacios, personajes y temas representados en 2666? Estas y otras preguntas son el objeto de estudio del presente libro, donde la cuestion de la totalidad - concepto omnipresente en los estudios del escritor chileno, si bien poco explorado - es el tema principal.

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  • Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. Cuentos negros

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  • Escribir fantástico Manual de escritura de

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    Book SynopsisLiteratura no mimética y supresión de la incredulidad. Cosmogénesis y ubicaciónespacio temporal. Clasificación y efecto de la literatura no realista. Literaturafantástica y de terror. Ciencia ficción, épica y realismo mágico.Estos son solo algunos de los temas por los que transita este manual (acorde altemario de los cursos oficiales de Escuela de Escritores y editado por AlejandroMarcos), pensado para aquellos que deseen adentrarse ?desde los márgenesal centro? y explorar las innumerables opciones que los subgéneros fantásticosnos conceden, entre ellas la de representar la realidad en la que vivimos o trasladarnosa otros mundos sin abandonar del todo el que habitamos.Con un generoso repaso clasificatorio, un recorrido por los principales autores, puntosde vista u opciones, y bien acompañado de un gran número de técnicas narrativas, coneste manual aprenderemos cómo hacerlo.

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  • Oxford University Press King Arthur and His Knights

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    Book SynopsisIncludes an extensive introduction encompassing biographical, and critical material which makes it ideal for students.Trade Review"I admire both the introduction and the selections."--David Wallace, University of Minnesota "Excellent intro - the illustrations are a nice touch as well. An update of the bibliographical essay (it goes only as late as 1971) is my only suggestion for improvement. I will definately use it again next spring for my intro. to medieval English literature class."--Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Pennsylvania "Invaluable selection from the greatest English Arthurian work, and indispensable foundation for the study of the contemporary legend."--Professor Thomas A. Shippey, St. Louis University "I've used this book for years."--Deborah J. Hyland, St. Louis University "The best student edition of Malory available. It cleaves Keith Baines's limp translation from the brain pan to the saddle bow."--Lan Lipscomb, Troy State University, A

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  • Oxford University Press, USA Jane Austens Emma A Casebook Casebooks in

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    Book SynopsisAlthough Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like, the irony of her remark has been obvious since the first appearance of her novel in December 1815. The central character may have attracted diverse reactions, but there can be no doubt about the endless enjoyment afforded to generations of readers. The essays in this collection demonstrate the varied delights of reading Emma. Most have been written in the last twenty years, but each draws on the cumulative body of scholarship and critical analysis that has built up since the novel was first published. The purpose of the collection is to introduce readers of Austen to new ways of interpreting her most substantial and rewarding novel. Each essay engages with Emma, but there is considerable dialogue taking place between the different approaches, which collectively contributes to the enriched readings of Austen''s work. The collection opens with an introduction encouraging readers to re-read Emma, and to find its pleasures magnified by the critical interpretations and scholarship represented in this casebook.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Fionna Stafford Acknowledgements 1: 'Opinions of Emma' collected by Jane Austen (1816) 2: Walter Scott, Unsigned review of Emma (1816) 3: Reginald Farrer, 'Jane Austen, ob. July 18, 1817' (1917) 4: Lionel Trilling, 'Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen' (1957) 5: Wayne C. Booth, 'Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma' (1961) 6: Claudia L. Johnson, 'Woman, lovely woman reigns alone' (1988) 7: Joseph Litvak, 'Reading Characters: Self, Society and Text in Emma' (1985) 8: John Dussinger, 'Desire: Emma in Love' (1990) 9: John Wiltshire, 'Emma: The Picture of Health' (1992) 10: Mary Waldron, 'Men of Sense and Silly Wives: The Confusion of Mr Knightley' (1999) 11: Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, 'Filming Highbury: Reducing the Community in Emma to the Screen' (1999) 12: Gayle Wald, 'Clueless in the neo-colonial world order' (2000) 13: Brian Southam, 'Emma: England, Peace, and Patriotism' (2000) 14: Frances Ferguson, Jane Austen, Emma and the Impact of Form' (2000)

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  • Oxford University Press HOMERS ALLUSIVE ART C

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Excursions into Modernism Women Writers Travel

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    Book SynopsisPositioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought ''primitive'' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women''s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys''s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf''s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott''s Escapade to DorothyTrade Review'In her groundbreaking new book Excursions Into Modernism, Joyce E. Kelley shows how travel shaped the production of women’s imaginative fiction in ways not always acknowledged in conventional genealogies of modernism. By addressing issues of race and class, and by focusing on concepts such as illness, pregnancy, and even the piano, Kelley provides a rich, thoughtful, and rigorous reevaluation of the landscape of modernism even as she extends its geography not only externally on the globe but internally. Kelley's book will prove to be indispensable not only to the field of travel studies but to the new modernist studies as well.' David Farley, St John's University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: women, travel, and the body; Increasingly imaginative geographies: excursions into otherness, fantasy, and Modernism in early 20th-century women’s travel writing; Narratives of passing: transdermal excursions in Larsen, Rhys, and Hall; Modernist fever: the ‘undiscovered countries’ of illness; ‘I am going on and on to the end of myself where something else begins’: travel, pregnancy, and Modernism; ‘It carried her out of the house, out of the world’: Modernist women writers and the piano; Conclusion: final excursions: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Bibliography; Index

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