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Author:   Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032580319

ISBN 10:   1032580313
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1. Wharton’s view of cultural continuity in Italian Villas (1904) and Their Gardens (1905) Influences and editorial interventions Villas and tradition Wharton’s definition of “villa” Renaissance tour Baroque tour Villas and art history Nature and culture in garden architecture Manners in garden architecture Writing the history of art and architecture 2. Uncatalogued treasures: Travels in art history via Edith Wharton’s Italian Backgrounds (1905) Sources and book The seen and the unseen: John Ruskin’s Italy Publication and reception Wharton’s visions of Italy: “deconventionalized” scenes Foreground and background Scenes of observation Fact and fancy in Wharton’s painterly vision Wharton’s backgrounds 3. Historical Continuity in A Motor-Flight Through France (1908) Influences, editing and illustrations, contemporary reviews Historical continuity in space Continuity in landscape and architecture Renovations contra ruins Cathedrals as symbols: a sentimental model of appreciating continuity The stakes of historical understanding in Wharton 4. The war of images: Edith Wharton’s architectural reports of war in Fighting France (1915) Antecedents, articles to book, early reviews Visions of war and cultural destruction in Fighting France The role of art history and propaganda in Wharton’s language of war 5. A Motor-Flight Through North Africa: The Miracle of Morocco Composition, publication, contemporary reception Wharton’s Moroccan Orient: history, dreams, women Facts and dreams of the Moroccan past Moroccan harems Wharton’s architectural vision in her colonial war reports 6. Edith Wharton’s quest for historical continuity in the Aegean Antecedents and publication history: Homer, Goethe, and Ruskin in the typescript Observing architecture in The Cruise of the Vanadis Architectural vision in the Osprey Notes Absence and presence of the past in Athens and Crete 7. Edith Wharton’s travel fragments about Spain Where the fragments come from: Wharton’s readings in art history St. James’s Way: Wharton’s Spanish cathedral trail in the “Spain Diary,” “Back to Compostela” and “A Motor-Flight Through Spain” Architectural vision in “A Motor-Flight Through Spain” Conclusion Index

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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács is Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests include late-nineteenth-century proto-modern fiction, conversions of literary modernisms, popular fiction genres, and contemporary multicultural American fiction. Her current research into travel writing involves remapping travel texts by Edith Wharton. She has published two books, The Function of the Imagination in the Writings of Henry James: The Production of a Civilized Experience (2006) and Literature in Context (2010), co-edited Space, Gender and the Gaze (2017), and edited Edith Wharton’s Osprey Notes (2021). She sits on the editorial boards of Americana E-Journal and TNTeF E-Journal, Szeged; and Acta Philologica, Cluj (RO).

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