Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel

Malcolm Bradbury. Stated first Anerican edition, first printing. New York: Viking, 1995. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. No writing or markings found in this clean, well-preserved copy, 514 pp.  

Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel is Malcolm Bradbury’s major critical study of how writers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped — and reshaped — the modern novel. Bradbury examines the “pilgrimages” of ideas, myths, and artistic movements traveling between Europe and America from the 18th century to the late 20th century.

He explores how novelists such as Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon, and others responded to — and reinterpreted — the cultural pull between the Old World and the New.

Richly researched and interpretive, Dangerous Pilgrimages stands as one of Bradbury’s most ambitious works and a foundational text in late-20th-century literary criticism.

This edition belongs in any serious collection of 20th-century literary criticism or works exploring transatlantic cultural exchange.