Edith Wharton's Travel Writing

The Making of a Connoisseur

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-06-11
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:194
Upplaga:1997
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9780312158422

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Innehållsförteckning

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