This article addresses an under-represented area of travel writing: the travel text that results from a journey undertaken for work purposes. By considering J. B. Priestley's English Journey as a case-study, it argues that the text's critical reception, at first disorientated and confused, ...
1、1,Brief Introduction,11E2 金翠 110108100208,2,Priestleys output was vast and varied - he published over 120 books (usually light and optimistic in their tone), about 50 plays and essays.,John Boynton Priestley (13 September 1894 14 August 1984), known as J. B. Priestley, was an Eng...
B. Priestley's English Journey (1934), focusing on ways in which the book deploys shifting notions of authenticity in response to a background of economic and social upheaval and a burgeoning mass culture. I suggest ways in which Priestley's text transgresses those generic categories from ...