Edith Wharton's Travel Writing

The Making of a Connoisseur

Sarah Bird Wright (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-312-15842-2 (ISBN)

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The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship. Wright reveals how Wharton enacted a new dialectic of tourism by reconstituting what Blake Nevius calls the 'aesthetic spectra' in her travel texts. Wharton abandoned the examples set by American predecessors such as Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who led the 'artless travelers' of her parents' day to lakes, waterfalls, mountains, and ruins echoing sentimental legends and chose to emulate John Ruskin's precise visual observation and Bernard Berenson's scientific methods of appraisal.

Sarah Bird Wright is an independent scholar.

Preface - Connoisseur, Scholar, Amateur, and Traveler: The Cruise of the Vanadis - From America to Europe: The Decoration of Houses - Edith Wharton and Travel Writing in the Gilded Age: Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Italian Backgrounds - The Travel Texts in the Marketplace - The Belle Epoque: A Motor-Flight Through France - Sauvez, sauvez la France: World War One and Its Aftermath: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, French Ways and Their Meaning - Something Veiled and Abstracted: In Morocco - Patterns of Evolution: Reading the Travel Texts - Refracting the Odyssey: Edith Wharton's Travel Writing as the Cultural Capital of Her Fiction - Conclusion - Notes - Selective Bibliography - Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.6.1997
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 194 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-312-15842-4 / 0312158424
ISBN-13	978-0-312-15842-2 / 9780312158422
Zustand	Neuware