James Brooke-Smith

James Brooke-Smith is a literary critic and cultural historian based at the University of Ottawa. His first book, Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion, and the British Public School, was published by Reaktion in 2019. His essays have appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, Public Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Best Canadian Essays 2020 (Biblioasis).

The Advanced Guard of Tourism: Tracing a Direct Line Between the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and The Beach

James Brooke-Smith on Backpackers and Globalization in the 1990s

May 5, 2023 By James Brooke-Smith

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

James Brooke-Smith Considers a Miserable Genre

March 18, 2019 By James Brooke-Smith

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