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Preface - Connoisseur, Scholar, Amateur, and Traveler: The Cruise of theVanadis - From America to Europe: The Decoration of Houses - Edith Whartonand 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 andIts Aftermath: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, French Ways andTheir Meaning - Something Veiled and Abstracted: In Morocco - Patterns ofEvolution: Reading the Travel Texts - Refracting the Odyssey: Edith Wharton'sTravel Writing as the Cultural Capital of Her Fiction - Conclusion - Notes -Selective Bibliography - Index