Title
Emancipated from Baedeker: Wharton and Hemingway in Italy
Document Type
Book Chapter
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.
Published in
Date
2019
Pages
89-109
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.