Bookshelf
Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road by David Brown Morris ’64
March 1, 2022
Tags Alumni Book
(New York: Routledge, 2021)
Written for a general audience, this book proceeds in a sequence of 26 brief “riffs” on topics ranging from singing cowboys and pop songs to postmodern philosophers and climate-driven homelessness. The author argues that “wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres.”
Morris is emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of two prize-winning books in 18th-century studies and is known for contributions in pain medicine.
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