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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Wright, Sarah Bird. "Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur," American Studies Program, College of William and Mary, December 1995.
This dissertation studies Edith Wharton’s travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship. It focuses on what Pierre Bourdieu calls cultural “competence,” manifested in Wharton’s personae as connoisseur, scholar, amateur and traveler. It explains Wharton’s expatriation as the result of her dissociation from what she perceived as the banality and ugliness of American Victorian life. This work examines her relationship with the Gilded Age editors, surveys the critical reception and marketing of her travel books, and offers a structuralist reading of these texts. The final chapter treats her travel writing as the cultural capital of her fiction.
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