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 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 2024-08. 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 acknowledgement 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.
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature - 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 Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature write by Wendy Whelan-Stewart. This book was released on 2024-09-18. Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By cataloging and closely reading scenes of characters breastfeeding across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book decodes the beliefs of writers as celebrated as Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich and as current as Camille Dungy, Maggie Nelson, and Torrey Peters. It traces in these authors’ fantasies and fears the consistent and sometimes competing cultural ideologies that accrue over decades and find expression in breastfeeding scenes. Despite the different historical and cultural expectations of what a mother should be and do, twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers have consistently singled out maternal pleasure—a mother’s privileging of her own desire—as the most important theme attending scenes of breastfeeding.
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 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.
A Motor-Flight Through France
A Motor-Flight Through France - 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 A Motor-Flight Through France write by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2022-05-24. A Motor-Flight Through France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early years of the 20th Century, Edith Wharton took the road trip of a lifetime across France with the celebrated author, Henry James (author of ‘Turn of the Screw,’ later adapted for TV, featuring ‘Downton Abbey’ star Michelle Dockery). Accompanied by Edith’s husband, their chauffeur, and Wharton's two dogs, they travelled the French countryside, stopping wherever inspiration struck. The result, ‘A Motor-Flight Through France,’ is a chronicle of the French villages, towns, and cities they visited. Wharton, with an innate appreciation for architecture, perfectly captures the beauty of turn-of-the-century France, detailing their stop-offs with evocative descriptions. From the food, they ate to the people they met, ‘A Motor-Flight Through France’ is an important chronicle of the country at a time when Italy was setting its military sites on it. A superb read for Wharton fans, and those with an interest in history and travel. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes and she went on to become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death. Her works have been adapted to the screen countless times. The most recent examples are Martin Scorsese's 'The Age of Innocence' (1993) starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder and Terence Davies' 'The House of Mirth' (2000) starring Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz.
