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dc.contributor.authorHOBSON, Sen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-02T11:48:39Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.identifier.issn1364-5145en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9527
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.format.extent30 - 47 (17)en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofStudies in Travel Writingen_US
dc.subjectguidebooksen_US
dc.subjectmodernismen_US
dc.subjectVirginia Woolfen_US
dc.subjectE.M. Forsteren_US
dc.subjectH.D.en_US
dc.subjectErnest Hemingwayen_US
dc.subjectMina Loyen_US
dc.subjecttourismen_US
dc.subjectliteratureen_US
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.title"Looking all lost towards a Cook's guide for beauty”: the art of literature and the lessons of the guidebook in modernist writingen_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.description.versionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Travel Writing on 4th March 2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13645145.2014.994924.
dc.rights.holder(c) 2015 Taylor & Francis.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13645145.2014.994924en_US
pubs.issue1en_US
pubs.notesNo embargoen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.publisher-urlhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645145.2014.994924#.VW2mc89VhBcen_US
pubs.volume19en_US


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