Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture

• Main Author: Pearce, Lynne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Creative writing.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Creative Writing.

This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks-both literal and figurative- we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals, and literary texts from the m...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theorising Mobility, Movement, Memory-and Love
• 3. "Walking Out": The Mobilities of Courtship
• 4. Staying With/in: The Mobilities of Long-Term Relationships
• 5. Pilgrimage: The Mobilities of Mourning
• 6. Afterword: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives.