Oxford Travel Book Writers and Gentlemen-Scholars: Constructing Narrative Personae in Aldous Huxley’s "The Jesting Pilate", Robert Byron’s "The Station" and Evelyn Waugh’s "Remote People"

Grzegorz Moroz

University of Bialystok, Poland


Abstract

The travel book as a genre in the British literary tradition has been, for more than two centuries, characterized by the central role of craftily constructed narrative personae of gentlemen/travellers. This paper is an attempt to pinpoint the main similarities and differences in the construction of the narrative personae of three key between-the-wars Oxford graduates, who later became renowned writers Robert Byron, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh.

Keywords:

narrative persona, Oxford, novelist, travel book, construction, travel writing

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Published
2014-12-30


Moroz, G. (2014) “Oxford Travel Book Writers and Gentlemen-Scholars: Constructing Narrative Personae in Aldous Huxley’s "The Jesting Pilate", Robert Byron’s "The Station" and Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Remote People’”, Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, (7). doi: 10.15290/cr.2014.07.4.03.

Grzegorz Moroz 
University of Bialystok, Poland