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    "Looking all lost towards a Cook's guide for beauty”: the art of literature and the lessons of the guidebook in modernist writing

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    Volume
    19
    Pagination
    30 - 47 (17)
    Publisher
    Taylor and Francis
    Publisher URL
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645145.2014.994924#.VW2mc89VhBc
    DOI
    10.1080/13645145.2014.994924
    Journal
    Studies in Travel Writing
    Issue
    1
    ISSN
    1364-5145
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    Abstract
    This article explores the impact of the guidebook, especially the Baedeker series, on modernist literary culture. It argues that the guidebook is a literary phenomenon in its own right and that, as such, it attracts special attention from those engaged in defending and/or extending the category of literature as part of a modernist agenda. In particular, modernist writers are concerned as to whether the guidebook counts as a form of literature and, if so, what this means for the more familiar forms seen in their own essays, fiction and travelogues. What might the invention of the star system to rank scenes and monuments mean for the future of art criticism? How might the guidebook help or hinder the traveller in his/her pursuit of the beautiful or the picturesque? What does recourse to the guidebook reveal about the taste and education of the traveller? And, more pointedly still, what kind and quality of writing is the guidebook itself? This article surveys the extent of modernism's interest in the guidebook, both as a noteworthy new form and as a form modernist writers adapted for use in their own books, before turning in detail to commentary on the guidebook by E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, H.D. and Virginia Woolf. In conclusion, it finds that the guidebook in modernism is very rarely just that. Instead, the guidebook finds unexpected affinities with modernism in its attempt to “modernise” literature – to make it more rational, more totalising and, in the eyes of its critics, less able to discriminate.
    Authors
    HOBSON, S
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    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9527
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    English
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