{"product_id":"wanderers-literature-culture-and-the-open-road-paperback","title":"Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Brown Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e　\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film \u003cem\u003eNomadland\u003c\/em\u003e) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. \u003ci\u003eWanderers\u003c\/i\u003e provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e　\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Brown Morris \u003c\/strong\u003eis a writer-scholar, and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA. He is very widely published, including two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century studies, and is internationally known for contributions in pain medicine. \u003cem\u003eThe Culture of Pain\u003c\/em\u003e (1991) won a PEN prize and initiates a trilogy that includes \u003cem\u003eIllness and Culture in the Postmodern Age\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eEros and Illness\u003c\/em\u003e (2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837574897861,"sku":"9781032185965","price":46.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Oh46WaN8_S9781032185965.webp?v=1771281700","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/wanderers-literature-culture-and-the-open-road-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}