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Oxford Travel Book Writers and Gentlemen-Scholars...
Oxford Travel Book Writers and Gentlemen-Scholars...

Author(s): Grzegorz Moroz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: narrative persona; Oxford; novelist; travel book; construction; travel writing

Summary/Abstract: The travel book as a genre in the British literary tradition has been, for more than two centuries, characterized by the central role of craftily constructed narrative personae of gentlemen/travellers. This paper is an attempt to pinpoint the main similarities and differences in the construction of the narrative personae of three key between-the-wars Oxford graduates, who later became renowned writers Robert Byron, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 04 (7)
  • Page Range: 23-32
  • Page Count: 10