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Author:   Martyn Cornick ,  Martin Hurcombe ,  Angela Kershaw
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780415858823

ISBN 10:   0415858828
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   24 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents Introduction: Radical Departures and the Politics of Inter-war Travel Writing (Hurcombe, Kershaw and Cornick) Chapter One: From the Grand Tour to the Political Tourist: Italy and the Encounter with Homo Fascista (Martin Hurcombe) Chapter Two: Out of Chaos, Order: Latinity and the Iberian Dictatorships (Martin Hurcombe) Chapter Three: The New Soviet Woman and the French Debate on Gender in the 1920s (Angela Kershaw) Chapter Four: The Journey to the USSR in the 1930s: Apology, Apocrypha, Apostasy (Angela Kershaw) Chapter Five: Towards Totalitarianism: French Travel Writing around the Nazi Seizure of Power (Martyn Cornick) Chapter Six: Excursions and Alarums: the New Germany (Martyn Cornick) Chapter Seven: Political Peregrinations, the Journey Home, and the Sense of Self: Functions of Political Travel Writing in Inter-war France (Kershaw, Hurcombe, Cornick) Conclusion: Political Travel Writing and the Persistence of Utopian Thinking (Kershaw, Hurcombe, Cornick) Bibliography

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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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