Research Catalog

Title

Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road / David Brown Morris.

Author

Morris, David B.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xii, 143 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy"--

Series Statement

Routledge focus on literature

Uniform Title

Routledge focus on literature.

Subject

• Nomads in literature
• Nomads in popular culture

Note

• "Routledge Focus"--from cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 22-750

ISBN

• 9781032136837
• 1032136839
• 9781032185965
• 1032185961

LCCN

2021036311

OCLC

1272882650

Author

Morris, David B., author.

Title

Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road / David Brown Morris.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge focus on literature

Routledge focus on literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Brown Morris, David. Wanderers 1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022 9781003255307 (DLC) 2021036312

Research Call Number

JFD 22-750