Age of Innocence

Name: Age of Innocence
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ISBN: 9780393967944

ISBN-10: 0393967948

ISBN-13: 9780393967944

Edition: 2002

Authors: Edith Wharton, Candice Waid

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Description:

This edition of Edith Wharton's popular novel of desire and its implications includes a rigorously annotated text, detailed material on the context of New York society at the time and English and American criticism.

Book details

List price: $18.77
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



About This Series


Introduction


A Note on the Text



The Age of Innocence



Background Readings


Questions of Culture


From "The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture against Politics"



From "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy"



From "Democratic Vistas"



From "Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art"



"The Location and Decoration of Houses in The Age of Innocence"



From How the Other Half Lives



Marriage and Divorce


From Domestic Revolutions



From "For the Wedding Night"



Travel and Sport


From the Introduction to American Travel Writers, 1850-1915



From "Americans Abroad"



From "Newport"



From "The Lawn Set"



Anthropology


From Violence and the Sacred



From Primitive Culture




Other Writings



Writing The Age of Innocence


The Ways of Old New York


The Childishness of American Women


"The Valley of Childish Things"


Winning the Pulitizer Prize



Critical Readings


From "The Composition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence"



From "Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art"



From "Becoming the Mask: Edith Wharton's Ingenues"



From "Angel of Devastation: Edith Wharton on the Arts of the Enslaved"



From "The Age of Innocence and the Bohemian Peril"



From "Edith Wharton: The Archeological Motive"



From "'Hunting for the Real': Wharton and the Science of Manners"



From "A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust"



From "The Mind in Chains: Public Plots and Personal Fables"



From "American Naturalism in Its 'Perfected' State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy"



From "The Scorses Interview: On Filming The Age of Innocence"



"Of Writers and Class: In Praise of Edith Wharton"



Works Cited


For Further Reading