Session Details
Thursday, 06 January
101. Edith Wharton and Travel
3:30–4:45 p.m., Platinum Salon G, J. W. Marriott
Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society and the Discussion Group on Travel Literature
Presiding: Gary Totten, North Dakota State Univ.
1. “The ‘Guide-Book Tourist’ versus ‘The Cultivated Minority of Travellers’ in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing,” Frederick Wegener, California State Univ., Long Beach
2. “‘The Banalities and Promiscuities of Modern Travel’: Female Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Capital in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco,” Andrea Bebell, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
3. “The Frenchwoman Dépaysée: Edith Wharton’s French Ways and Their Meaning, Gabrielle Landormy, and the Transnational Body,” Donna M. Campbell, Washington State Univ., Pullman
Respondent: Gary Totten
For abstracts, write to gary.totten@ndsu.edu.