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020 _a9781003442189
020 _a9781032580265
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024 7 _a10.4324/9781003442189
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100 1 _aKovács, Ágnes Zsófia
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245 1 0 _aThe Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton's Travel Writings
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_bRoutledge [Imprint]
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aRoutledge Research in Women's Literature
506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aEdith 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.
540 _aOpen licence
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546 _aeng
650 7 _aBiography, Literature and Literary studies
_2thema
650 7 _aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
_2thema
650 7 _aLiterature: history and criticism
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653 _aarchitecture
653 _aart history
653 _acultural continuity
653 _aEdith Wharton
653 _atravel writing
700 1 _aKovács, Ágnes Zsófia
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793 0 _aOAPEN Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93344
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