I was delighted to be invited by James Smith to contribute a chapter on travel writing to his edited volume, The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s, my contributors' copies of which arrived today. Ever since my former colleague Stan Smith asked me to supply an essay on Auden's travel writing for his The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden (2006), I have been fascinated by 1930s' travel writing. Among the works that interest me most are those that expose the fallibility of generalisations, admit the limitations of their point of view, and experiment with form in order to find a fit between representation and subject.
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Tim Youngs
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