A study of Wharton's work which discusses her novels and travel books according to their specific geography or landscape rather than the date of composition. Emphasis is placed on Wharton's concern with America's place in the Western world and women's place in European society.

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Book Title: Edith Wharton
Book Subtitle: Traveller in the Land of Letters
Authors: Janet Goodwyn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20447-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46429-8Published: 11 December 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-20447-2Published: 11 December 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 171
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies

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