Nina Murdoch alone in Spain
Tremendous past, savage present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Hanley (0000-0001-6331-7353, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 383-402 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13645145.2017.1399536 |
| OpenAlex | W2794069470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Madoline “Nina” Murdoch (1890–1976) was an Australian journalist, broadcaster, and writer. Among her other works, Murdoch wrote several travel books about her trips to Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Travel to Europe from Australia was becoming increasingly accessible in the early twentieth century, and Murdoch’s books contributed to a popular discourse about Australia’s relationship both to Britain and to European civilisation more generally, as well as reflecting anxieties about women’s role in society and about industrialisation. This essay discusses the travel writing of Nina Murdoch in the context of the nature and meaning of travel to Europe – Spain in particular – for Australians in the early twentieth century, analysing how Mucrdoch’s equivocal Eurocentrism and her feminine authorial voice are inflected by changing discourses of modernity and of women’s lives
Art · Art history · Civilization · Context (archaeology · Eurocentrism · Industrialisation · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Travel writing · Anthropology · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
Australian cultural history
Discourses of Difference
A “Relative Escape”? The Impact of Constraints on Women Who Travel Solo
The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism
The Colonial Flaneuse
Changing visitor perceptions of Malaga (Spain) and its development as a winter health resort in the nineteenth century
Southern exposure
Esprit De Nation and Popular Modernity
The retreat from adventure
Orientalizing Southern Europe
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s
Exiles at Home
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |