French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-war Years : Radical Departures
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 91680323
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415858823
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Examining a vast corpus of writing located on the boundaries of journalism and literature, this 329pp. co-authored book is the first work exploring the phenomenon of French political travel writing, situating this within the turbulent political history of interwar Europe. The authors deploy utopian theory to read journeys by French intellectuals to nations governed by different forms of authoritarian regimes of the era (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Nationalist Spain and the USSR) to illustrate how political travel writing offered the vision of a radically different way of being through which writers invited readers to challenge the status quo of Republican France.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Pages 79-91 of Chapter 2 reprise some material and ideas from Chapter One of France and the Spanish Civil War (monograph submitted REF2014). These are augmented by a) a more detailed, historically informed discussion of the conditions of travel in Nationalist Spain and b) analysis of Eddy Bauer’s Rouge et or (not discussed in the REF2014 submission). Furthermore, these are recontextualised within: 1. a broader chapter examining French intellectuals and the Iberian dictatorship (pp. 64-79 offer a discussion of representations of Salazar’s Estado Novo) and 2. An original critical framework that reflects the collaboration of the three authors since 2014.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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