Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, Travel Writing - History & Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Historiography, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneou

Edith Wharton's Travel Writing

Name: Edith Wharton's Travel Writing
Author: Sarah Bird Wright
ISBN: 9780312158422

by Sarah Bird Wright

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Overview

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.

Synopsis

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.

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Argues that American writer Wharton (1862-1937) enacted a new dialectic of tourism by reconstituting the aesthetic spectra in her travel texts. Shows how she abandoned the artless traveller pose of earlier Americans and emulated John Ruskin's precise visual observation and Bernard Berenson's scientific methods of appraisal. Also explores how her studied appreciation affected her fiction. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.