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

by Sarah Bird Wright

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312158424
• ISBN13: 9780312158422
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"