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Literary Journeys
ISBN: 9781912827213
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From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to Kerouac's On the Road, Cervante's Don Quixote to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, the journey has long been an archetypal story. The genre's inherent escapism is the perfect vehicle for fuelling dreams of being outlaws and romantics, for taking us outside of our own lives and across the world. From the comforts and confines of our homes, this book brings to life some of the most significant, exciting, dangerous, tragic and uplifting journeys ever written about.
Tracing the chronological growth of the journey as a literary device, this volume showcases the breadth of different authors' grapples with this narrative structure. Literary Journeys will take you on the most important journeys in literature, over eight centuries and across 30 countries.
A team of literary critics led by general editor, John Sutherland, an English academic, newspaper columnist and author. John is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and was the general editor of Literary Landscapes (2018) and a major contributor to Literary Wonderlands (2016).
Other contributors include Robert McCrum, Rosemary Goring, Alan Taylor, Michael Bourne, Catherine Taylor and Iain Maloney.
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