Title: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton : perspectives on landscape and art /
Authors: Dean, Sharon L., 1943-
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Woolson, Constance Fenimore,; Wharton, Edith,; Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Criticism and interpretation.; Wharton, Edith, Criticism and interpretation.; Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Critique et interprétation.; Wharton, Edith, Critique et interprétation.; Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Et l'aménagement paysager.; Wharton, Edith, Et l'aménagement paysager.; Wharton, Edith; Woolson, Constance Fenimore; Woolson, Constance Fenimore.; Wharton, Edith.; Travelers' writings, American History and criticism.; Women and literature United States.; Art and literature United States.; Landscape design History.; Travel writing History; Landscapes in literature.; Travel in literature.; Écrits de voyageurs américains Histoire et critique.; Femmes et littérature États-Unis.; Art et littérature États-Unis.; Aménagement paysager Histoire.; Voyage Art d'écrire Histoire.; Paysage dans la littérature.; Voyage dans la littérature.; Art and literature; Landscape design; Landscapes in literature.; Travel in literature.; Travel writing; Travelers' writings, American; Women and literature; Landschaft; Landschaft.; United States
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
Contents: Beyond the anxiety of influence -- The landscape of travel -- Landscape as yard; landscape as view -- Northern climates; winter landscapes -- Living in the green worlds of America -- Nature as spiritual and social image -- The landscape of Europe -- Artists and the literary landscape.