Travelling through Forbidden Zones: Comparing Edith Wharton's and Mary Roberts Rinehart's Experiences in the Great War

This essay discusses and compares Edith Wharton's and Mary Roberts Rinehart's travelogues from the First World War. Despite the cultural and literary interest of these chronicles, and the fact that one of them was written by a well-established writer, these two compilations of articles have received limited critical attention. The essay explores how the two authors coincide or differ in their literary treatment of the some of the conventions of the travel writing genre.This research was made possible with funding from the Center of Women Studies (CEM) from Universidad de Alicante and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN - Ref. FFI2008-01932 - BES-2009-012060)