Edith Wharton Abroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton Abroad write by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 1996-08-15. Edith Wharton Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel"--the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton's unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos.
Edith Wharton Abroad
Edith Wharton Abroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton Abroad write by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 1997-06-30. Edith Wharton Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called brilliantly written and permanently interesting. For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general reader in a single volume. The collection spans a period of three decades: from the time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, diligence, railway, and motor car during the belle epoque, through the horror and pathos of the French landscape during World War I, to the Morocco of 1917 - a country previously forbidden to most women and foreigners. Scornful of guidebooks, Edith Wharton focused instead on the parentheses of travel - the undiscovered by-ways of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Among the sites she describes are the towns of Tirano, Brescia, Poitiers, and Chauvigny; the gardens of the Villa Caprarola and the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati; Hippone and Goletta. Her account of Mount Athos in Greece (written in the recently discovered diary of her 1888 Mediterranean cruise), may be the first ever by an American. An intrepid reporter, she also depicts the front lines of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. She describes art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape with the eye of a knowledgeable connoisseur and the sensitivity of an observant and imaginative novelist. Open to all experiences, she is a voracious intellectual wanderer who often interprets the sights she sees in the light of the extensive historic, literary, and classical reading begun in her youth.
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The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings write by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács. This book was released on 2024-09-13. The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The book demonstrates Wharton’s complex relationship to works of art historians (John Ruskin, Émile Mâle, Arthur C. Porter) and travel authors (Wolfgang Goethe, Henry Adams, Henry James) in the trajectory of her travel writing. Kovács surveys how the acknowledgment of Wharton’s sources sheds light both on the author’s model of aesthetic understanding and scenic architectural descriptions, and how the shock of the Great War changed Wharton’s travel destinations but not her symbolic view of architecture as a mediator of things past. Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture provide a new key to her travel writings.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton write by Emily Orlando. This book was released on 2022-10-20. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.
