Edith Wharton's Travel Writing - The Making of a Connoisseur (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Sarah Bird Wright
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	194
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-15842-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-312-15842-4
Barcode:	9780312158422

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