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This chapter argues that E. M. Forster’s engagement with embodied tourism and travel in his Italian novels Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and A Room with a View (1908) anticipates twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates in tourism research about the role of the material environment in determining touristic experiences. In light of the performative and material turn, my analysis demonstrates how paying attention to everyday embodied interactions with the world redefines traditional readings of tourism in Forster’s fiction as an experience that is limited to travellers’ social and cultural practices.
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Dakkak, N. (2019). “A smell! A true Florentine smell!”: Tourists’ Embodied Experiences in E. M. Forster’s Fiction. In: Carruthers, J., Dakkak, N., Spence, R. (eds) Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930 . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_12
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