Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing

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Architecture in Wharton's travel writing reveals deep connections to cultural landscapes and personal memories.
The examination of five travel books illustrates how landscapes shape narrative and identity.
Focus on Italian villas and their gardens showcases Wharton's unique perspective in early 20th-century literature.
Exploration of unpublished diaries adds richness and context to Wharton's documented experiences in Spain and the Aegean.

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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács’s monograph The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing focusses on Wharton’s five books on travel writing in Italy, France and North Africa, drawing in addition from her diaries (unpublished in her lifetime) of her cruise in the Aegean and her travels in Spain. The first two chapters of this very interesting textually oriented survey concentrate on Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904) and Italian Backgrounds (1905). Chapters Three and Four deal with A...

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