性别·种族·空间

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Introduction

The Resurgence of Interest in Travel Writing Studies

Characteristic Features of Travel Writing

American Women Abroad

Critical Receptions of Edith Wharton

Chapter One "The Beaten Track"--Edith Wharton and the Genre of Travel Writing

Beyond the Anxiety of Influence

The Foreground and the Background

The Technical and the Sentimental

Chapter Two "The Vast Unknown Just Beyond"--Edith Whartons Othering Gaze

The Discursive Formulation of American Travel Writing

Differentiation and Discrepancy in Whartons Portrayal of European Landscapes

An Incoherent Imperial Rhetoric

Chapter Three "The Secret Garden"--Edith Whartons Feminized Sphere and Defeminizing Stance

Resistance against and Reconciliation with the Leisure Class Concept of Women

Critical Skepticism and Textual Appropriation

Gendered Authorship and Ruptured Persona

Conclusions

Works Cited

伊迪斯·华顿是19世纪末20世纪初的美国女作家，著有关于意大利、法国和摩洛哥的游记共六部。这些游记作品不仅反映出她如何看待、再现异域景物，更揭示了她如何在文化他者的衬托下定义自我的过程，其文本充分展现了华顿在强烈的逾越冲动与难以抗拒的传统力量之间经受的张力，蕴含着相当的文化复杂性。
《性别·种族·空间：伊迪斯·华顿游记作品研究》在结构上分为三部分。第一章从“影响的焦虑”谈起，论述华顿在难以出新的游记领域另辟空间时既反抗又妥协的做法；第二章以自我和他者的关系为切入点分析了华顿在描述异域景物方面显露出的既靠拢又排斥，既侵入又谦服，既高傲又恐惧的复杂心态；第三章围绕性别来检视华顿的女性观及其建构游记文本的方法，并从人称指代方面考察其女性叙述策略。