Table of Contents

Preface - Connoisseur, Scholar, Amateur, and Traveler: The Cruise of the Vanadis - From America to Europe: The Decoration of Houses - Edith Wharton and Travel Writing in the Gilded Age: Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Italian Backgrounds - The Travel Texts in the Marketplace - The Belle Epoque: A Motor-Flight Through France - Sauvez, sauvez la France: World War One and Its Aftermath: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, French Ways and Their Meaning - Something Veiled and Abstracted: In Morocco - Patterns of Evolution: Reading the Travel Texts - Refracting the Odyssey: Edith Wharton's Travel Writing as the Cultural Capital of Her Fiction - Conclusion - Notes - Selective Bibliography - Index