Emancipated from Baedeker: Wharton and Hemingway in Italy

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Cecilia Macheski

Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.89-109

2019

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Title: Emancipated from Baedeker: Wharton and Hemingway in Italy
Author/Creator: Cecilia Macheski
Publication Details: Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.89-109
Annotation: Surveys Wharton's and Hemingway's experiences in Italy and their subsequent writings. Discusses their shared passion for the country's preserved history and culture and the appeal of their fiction and nonfiction to American readers, inspiring celebrity tourism in the case of Hemingway with travelers eager to retrace his and his characters' footsteps through Europe. Also covers the authors' fears of the rise of fascism for the country's future after World War I. Discusses Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon (1922), Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904), and Italian Backgrounds (1907) and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and Across the River and into the Trees.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136397903691