David Brown Morris
Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road
Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road
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Wandering is a primal and recurrent human experience that is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. David Brown Morris argues that it is essential to understand how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an initial overview of the importance of wandering as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration.
Format: Hardback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 24 December 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Wandering, as a profound and enduring human experience, has been explored through a diverse range of cultural texts, from popular songs to philosophical analysis. This book offers not only a captivating informal history but also serves as a vital vantage point for understanding the emergence of new wanderers in our contemporary era.
Wanderers, authored by David Brown Morris, presents a dynamic and comprehensive exploration of this significant and recurring theme in literary history. Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurring human experience, holds the key to understanding certain literary texts. In turn, a selection of prominent literary and cultural texts, spanning from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland, illustrate how representations of wandering have evolved across different cultures, eras, and genres.
Wanderers provides an essential introduction to the significance of wandering, both as a perennial human experience and as a shifting historical phenomenon. It encompasses contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration, which urgently demand our attention. This book offers a delightful and informative journey through a profound concept that will captivate scholars and researchers in the fields of literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Weight: 316g
Dimension: 143 x 223 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032136837
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