02666namaa2200505uu 4500 oapen93344 oapen 20251217011847.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240925s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003442189 9781032580265 9781032580319 10.4324/9781003442189 doi oapen oapen eng dc D thema DS thema DSK thema Kovács, Ágnes Zsófia edt The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton's Travel Writings Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Research in Women's Literature Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema Literature: history and criticism thema architecture art history cultural continuity Edith Wharton travel writing Kovács, Ágnes Zsófia aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93344 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36942 36942