New Expeditions: Itineraries, Migrations, Excursions

Abstract

Imperialism and its aftermath set off an extraordinary wave of travel, exploration, and migrations around the globe, in which writers, or potential writers, were inevitably caught up. One consequence was that many novels of the last one hundred and fifty years, especially British novels, have had exotic settings.David Lodge, “The Exotic”, The Art of Fiction, pp. 158-9.