Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s

摘要: In the 1930s, discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies - socialist, conservative, male chauvinist feminist major writers time revealed as much in their texts. Evelyn Waugh was a declared conservative fascist sympathizer; George Orwell dedicated socialist; Graham Greene wavered between his bouregois instincts liberal left-wing sympathies; Rebecca West maintained strong liberationist convictions. Bernard Schweizer explores both intentional political rhetoric more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts Waugh, Orwell, study writing's dimension. "Radicals on Road" demonstrates how historically culturally conditioned forms anxiety were compounded by psychological dynamics uncanny how, order to dispel such anxieties demarcate ideological terrains, 1930s travellers resorted dualistic discourses. Yet any seemingly fixed dualism, particularly opposition left right, dichotomy home abroad, or rift utopia dystopia, undermined rise totalitarianism an increasing sense global crisis which soon followed disillusionment. Therefore, argues Schweizer, travelling during than just means engage burning questions day: travelling, turn writing, also registered travellers' growing futility powerlessness especially turbulent world.