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Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton : perspectives on landscape and art / Sharon L. Dean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 268 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1572331941 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.40932 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3363 .D425 2002
Contents:
1. Beyond the Anxiety of Influence -- 2. The Landscape of Travel -- 3. Landscape as Yard; Landscape as View -- 4. Northern Climates; Winter Landscapes -- 5. Living in the Green Worlds of America -- 6. Nature as Spiritual and Social Image -- 7. The Landscape of Europe -- 8. Artists and the Literary Landscape.
Review: "The first study to draw connections between Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton, this book explores the contrasting ways in which these two important writers responded to the rapidly changing landscapes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sharon L. Dean considers the travel essays of Woolson and Wharton, as well as their fiction, and contextualizes their work with the rise in tourism and with evolving theories and techniques of landscape design.Summary: She argues that for both writers, the manner in which they saw and transcribed landscape informed their ways of seeing themselves as artists." "Full of fresh insights into the literary achievements of both Woolson and Wharton, Dean's book will also prompt readers to reconsider their own responses and obligations to landscape and how those responses are shaped by their experiences and by larger cultural forces."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.

1. Beyond the Anxiety of Influence -- 2. The Landscape of Travel -- 3. Landscape as Yard; Landscape as View -- 4. Northern Climates; Winter Landscapes -- 5. Living in the Green Worlds of America -- 6. Nature as Spiritual and Social Image -- 7. The Landscape of Europe -- 8. Artists and the Literary Landscape.

"The first study to draw connections between Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton, this book explores the contrasting ways in which these two important writers responded to the rapidly changing landscapes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sharon L. Dean considers the travel essays of Woolson and Wharton, as well as their fiction, and contextualizes their work with the rise in tourism and with evolving theories and techniques of landscape design.

She argues that for both writers, the manner in which they saw and transcribed landscape informed their ways of seeing themselves as artists." "Full of fresh insights into the literary achievements of both Woolson and Wharton, Dean's book will also prompt readers to reconsider their own responses and obligations to landscape and how those responses are shaped by their experiences and by larger cultural forces."--BOOK JACKET.

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