Influence of

Travels in Italy by Goethe

upon

Sources  

  • Shari Benstock. No Gifts from Chance. A Biography of Edith Wharton, p. 64. Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)(1994).  
  • Infloox.

Notes

Notes

Wharton's "preferred references were literary and philosophical writings on ancient lands: Goethe's Travels in Italy, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's writing on Rhodes and Theophile Gautier's aesthetic treatises and travel accounts of the journey from Constantinople to Athens" (Benstock, p. 64)

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