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Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age

Author : Melanie V. Dawson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057418
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age written by Melanie V. Dawson and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a counterpoint to readings of modern American culture that focus on the cult of youth, Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age interrogates early twentieth-century literature’s obsessions with aging past early youth. Exploring the ways in which the aging process was understood as generating unequal privileges and as inciting intergenerational contests, this study situates constructions of age at the center of modern narrative conflicts. Dawson examines how representations of aging connect the work of Edith Wharton to writings by a number of modern authors, including Willa Cather, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Floyd Dell, Eugene O’Neill, and Gertrude Atherton. For these writers, age-based ideologies filter through narratives of mourning for youth lost in the Great War, the trauma connected to personal change, the contested self-determination of the aged, the perceived problem of middle-aged sexuality, fantasies of rejuvenation, and persistent patterns of patriarchal authority. The work of these writers shows that as the generational ascendancy of some groups was imagined to operate in tandem with disempowerment of others, the charged dynamics of age gave rise to contests about property and authority. Constructions of age-based values also reinforced gender norms, producing questions about personal value that were directed toward women of all ages. By interpreting Edith Wharton’s and her contemporaries’ works in relation to age-based anxieties, Dawson sets Wharton’s work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Author : Emily Orlando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350182958
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton written by Emily Orlando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

A Son at the Front

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192603337
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book A Son at the Front written by Edith Wharton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.

Singular Selves

Author : Ketaki Chowkhani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000962075
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Singular Selves written by Ketaki Chowkhani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.

The New Physiognomy

Author : Rochelle Rives
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421448394
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The New Physiognomy written by Rochelle Rives and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression. Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modernist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people. Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's face, Rives reasons that modernist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W. H. Auden's aging face, and Cindy Sherman's recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modernist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

The Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781534790209
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Was Going to Be The Perfect Wedding - Until He Showed Up... The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the institution.The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived, and the social tragedy of its plot. Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end of World War I. The title is an ironic comment on the polished outward manners of New York society when compared to its inward machinations. It is believed to have been drawn from the popular 1785 painting A Little Girl by Sir Joshua Reynolds that later became known as The Age of Innocence and was widely reproduced as the commercial face of childhood in the later half of the 18th century. The title, while ironic, was not as caustic as the title of story featured in the The House of Mirth, published in 1905. The Age of Innocence was a softer and more gentle work than The House of Mirth, set in the time of her childhood. Wharton wrote, "I found a momentary escape in going back to my childish memories of a long-vanished America... it was growing more and more evident that the world I had grown up in and been formed by had been destroyed in 1914." Scholars and readers alike agree that The Age of Innocence is fundamentally a story which struggles to reconcile the old with the new. Wharton was raised in that old world of rigid and proper New York society which features in the story. She spent her middle years, including the first World War in Europe where the devastation of new mechanized warfare was felt most deeply. As explained by Millicent Bell in the Cambridge companion to Wharton, "The Age of Innocence was composed and first read in the aftermath of Roosevelt's death and in the immediate wake of World War I. We frame the ending remembering the multiple losses... not only the loss of Roosevelt but the destruction of the prewar world and all that Wharton valued in it." With the first World War, a definitive line was crossed. There would be no return to the New York of old from which Wharton was raised. And for all that can be condemned in that, there is a certain tenderness with which she crafts the world, "as if she had forgotten nothing." This intones the title word innocence, as the novel seems to connect personal innocence with that of national innocence. To Robert Martin, The Age of Innocence, was "fundamentally about America and its failure to fulfill its own possibilities". The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee agreed to award the prize to Sinclair Lewis, the judges rejected his Main Street, on political grounds and "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'", the irony being that the committee had awarded The Age of Innocence the prize on grounds that negated Wharton's own blatant and subtle ironies which constitute and make the book so worthy of attention. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work. (Wikipedia) Get Your Copy Now.

Aging Moderns

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556004
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Aging Moderns written by Scott Herring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging. Aging Moderns provides portraits of writers and artists who sought out or employed unconventional methods and collaborations up until the early twenty-first century. Herring finds Djuna Barnes performing the principles of high modernism not only in poetry but also in pharmacy orders and grocery lists. In mystery novels featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas along with modernist souvenir collections, the gay writer Samuel Steward elaborated a queer theory of aging and challenged gay male ageism. The Harlem Renaissance dancer Mabel Hampton dispelled stereotypes about aging through her queer of color performances at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Herring explores Ivan Albright’s magic realist portraits of elders, Tillie Olsen’s writings on the aging female worker, and the surrealistic works made by Charles Henri Ford and his caregiver Indra Bahadur Tamang at the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Showcasing previously unpublished experimental art and writing, this deeply interdisciplinary book unites new modernist studies, American studies, disability studies, and critical age studies. Aging Moderns rethinks assumptions about literary creativity, the depiction of old age, and the boundaries of modernism.

The Age of Innocence "Annotated"

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence "Annotated" written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.[1] Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'".[2] The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work.

Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986818186
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence, published in 1920, tells the story of Newland Archer. Set in New York in the 1870's, the story follows Archer and his marriage to May Welland. But there's a spanner in the works, so to speak. The spanner being May's cousin, the beautiful and tainted by scandal, Countess Ellen Olenska. Archer falls in love with her, but romantic novels being as they are, he ends up marrying May anyway. The book continues, focusing on his marriage and his hidden love for Ellen. The Age Of Innocence won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.

The Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.[1] Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'".[2] The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work

Gramercy Modern Classics

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517124185
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Gramercy Modern Classics written by Edith Wharton and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1996 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three provocative, gorgeously written novels from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Wharton's engaging tales of love, lust, morals and manners have captured the imaginations of millions of fans throughout the years, both through the novels and the luminous films that have been made of them. Includes: The Age of Innocence, Summer, and the novella Madame De Treymes.

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging

Author : Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303150917X
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging written by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Age of Innocence The Edith Wharton Annotated

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Age of Innocence The Edith Wharton Annotated written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal

The Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500771560
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence first appeared in four large installments in The Pictorial Review, from July to October 1920. It was published that same year in book form by D. Appleton and Company in New York and in London. Wharton made extensive stylistic, punctuation, and spelling changes and revisions between the serial and book publication, and more than thirty subsequent changes were made after the second impression of the book edition had been run off. This authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first edition, which incorporates the last set of extensive revisions that are obviously authorial.

The Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541385030
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for the earlier, more brutal and critical, "The House of Mirth". Not to be overlooked is the author's attention to detailing the charms and customs of this caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the nineteenth-century East Coast American upper class lived and this combined with the social tragedy earned Wharton a Pulitzer - the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman.

The Age of Innocence

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718623729
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in the U.S. was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when society had rules as rigid as any in history. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.