Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur - Couverture rigide

Wright, Sarah Bird

 
9780333720295: Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur

Synopsis

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.

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9780312158422: Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur

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ISBN 10 :  0312158424 ISBN 13 :  9780312158422
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
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