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The memory of architecture in Edith Wharton's travel writings
Title
The memory of architecture in Edith Wharton's travel writings / Ágnes Zsófia Kovács.
ISBN
1003442188
1040116612
9781003442189
9781040116616
9781032580265
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2024).
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Kovács, Ágnes Zsófia The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton's Travel Writings Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2024
Series
Routledge research in women's literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Wharton's view of cultural continuity in Italian villas (1904) and Their gardens (1905)
Uncatalogued treasures : travels in art history via Edith Wharton's Italian backgrounds (1905)
Historical continuity in A motor-flight through France (1908)
The war of images : Edith Wharton's architectural reports of war in Fighting France (1915)
A motor-flight through North Africa : The miracle of Morocco
Edith Wharton's quest for historical continuity in the Aegean
Edith Wharton's travel fragments about Spain.
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