Woman on the road: Edith Wharton and the tourist trip report
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https://doi.org/10.47295/mgren.v13i2.1335Keywords:
Travel story, Travel report, Literature by female authorship, Edith WhartonAbstract
In the middle of the 20th century, the journey by car was transformed, figuratively, into an expression of masculine freedom, capable of encompassing man's existence as an essential part of the car-road relationship. However, although the public space has been socially constructed as a place of male occupation, history and literature show that woman has always been looking for their space. This fact is proven, for example, in the work A motor flight through France (1915), by the writer Edith Wharton, which shows that women also experienced the same feeling of freedom when using the car. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze how Wharton represents the female experience on the road from the cited work, in the light of the texts of Howard (2001), Luchezi (2010), Totten (2015), Serrano (2014), among others.
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