Wanderers

<p>This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. </p><p>Wanderers offers a fast-paced wide-ranging and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris 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 <em>Paradise Lost</em> to pop songs from Wordsworth to the blues from the Wandering Jew to the film <em>Nomadland</em>) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures times and genres. <i>Wanderers</i> provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. </p><p>Wanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature cultural studies and philosophy.</p>