Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lipski, Jakub (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Issues in Literature and Culture,
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Contemporary Literature.; Self and Identity.

This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant...

Table of Contents:

• Gentlemen-Scholars in British Travel Writing
• Harriet Martineau and "The Charmed Sea": Polish Travel Experience in Siberia
• Bringing their Baggage with Them: An Image of Americans in France ca. 1950 in Richard Yates' Short Story "A Really Good Jazz Piano".