Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad

250 Pages·2010·1.61 MB·English

by  David G. Farley

Modernist Travel Writing

Modernist Travel Writing
I n t e l l e c t u a l s a b r o a d
david G. Farley
University of Missouri Press
Columbia and London
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To Johanna, for making travel such a delight these many years
And to Lucy

Contents
acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Modernism and travel Writing
between the Wars 1
1. “damn the Partition!”: ezra Pound and
Modern travel 24
2. e. e. cummings: Intourist in the unworld 55
3. Wyndham lewis in Morocco:
a satiric enterprise 97
4. rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon:
the Quality of Visibility in Yugoslavia 144
conclusion: aftermaths and late Modernism 193
notes 205
bibliography 221
Index 231

Acknowledgments
t
raVelInG WIthout GuIdes Is For the adVenturous and
the intrepid, among whom I do not count myself. I would like to thank
two of the most outstanding guides I could have hoped for as I set
out, holly laird and robert spoo. they shaped this project in particular and
my own outlook on modernist literature in general in more ways than I can
say. I am forever indebted to them. Johanna dehler has read the manuscript
through many times over the years as it has grown and transformed and has
always helped me to sharpen my ideas and my presentation. I would also like
to thank my family for the dinner-table conversations from which, in some
obscure way, this project grew. a special thanks to my sister Margaret Farley
for her expertise and for fielding many a random phonecall.
at the university of Missouri Press, I would like to thank clair Wilcox for
his sage advice and tremendous patience in ushering this project along. thanks
as well to John brenner and sara davis and to tim Fox for his careful eye. I
would also like to thank the anonymous readers for their thorough reading
of the manuscript and encouraging feedback. their comments resulted in
me clarifying my argument at several key points. any lingering errors are of
course my own.
I would also like to thank the following people and institutions: the
national Portrait Gallery, london, for permission to reproduce Wyndham
lewis’s drawing of the head of rebecca West; lisa aguilar at the university of
texas libraries, the university of texas at austin for permission to reproduce
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