Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of Literature

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From Chaucers The Canterbury Tales to Kerouacs On the Road, Cervantes Don Quixote to Whiteheads The Underground Railroad, the journey has long been an archetypal story. The genres inherent escapism is the perfect vehicle for fuelling dreams of being outlaws and romantics, for taking us outside of our own lives and across the world. From the comforts and confines of our homes, this book brings to life some of the most significant, exciting, dangerous, tragic and uplifting journeys ever written about. Tracing the chronological growth of the journey as a literary device, this volume showcases the breadth of different authors grapples with this narrative structure. Literary Journeys will take you on the most important journeys in literature, over eight centuries and across over 30 countries. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS An team of fifty-five expert contributors includes literary critics, academics and authors such as John Sutherland, Maya Jaggi, Robert McCrum, Kimberly Fain and Alan Taylor.

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John McMurtrie is an editor for McSweeneys Publishing. He was the books editor of the San Francisco Chronicle from 2008 to 2019. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Literary Hub. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.