Edith Wharton's travel writing: the making of a connoisseur

Edith Wharton as 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 Belle eṕoque; a motor-flight through France

"Sauvez, sauvez la France"; World War I and its aftermath; Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort; French ways and their meaning

"Something veil'd and abstracted"; In Morocco.