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French Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Autor Martin Hurcombe, Angela Kershaw, Martyn Cornick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mar 2017

This book studies travel writing produced by French authors following visits to dictatorial regimes perceived in inter-war France as totalitarian in nature. In addition to a discussion of journeys to Nazi Germany and the USSR, it offers an analysis of journeys to countries whose influence over French intellectuals and their political engagement has been neglected: Fascist Italy, Nationalist Spain, and Salazar s Portugal. Through an analysis of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of totalitarianism for inter-war French intellectuals from a broad political spectrum. It examines not only those whose political sympathies with the extreme right or extreme left were already publicly known, but also those usually non-aligned intellectuals who occupied the "center ground" and who were nevertheless drawn to political models that offered an apparently radical alternative to that of the Third Republic in France. This study is therefore concerned with the varied and enduring appeal of totalitarian alternatives and their apparent promise for the French intellectual, considering to what extent the interest and, in some cases, fascination with such regimes reflects a utopian aspiration. Utopianism is understood not in the colloquial sense, as a fantasy ungrounded in the real but, in line with Karl Mannheim, Paul Ric ur, and Ruth Levitas, as a form of non-congruence with the real that it seeks to transcend. This book establishes the extent of political travelling as an intellectual phenomenon of the inter-war periods, and considers how political engagement, expressed textually, becomes a form of political action designed to impact upon the real. "

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ISBN-13: 9780415858823
ISBN-10: 0415858828
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Travel Writing


Notă biografică

Martyn Cornick is Professor of French Cultural History at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Martin Hurcombe is a Reader in French Studies in the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, UK.

Angela Kershaw is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, UK.


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