Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

New Centenary Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Following the publication of The Age of Innocence in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. To mark 100 years since the book's first publication, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays brings together leading scholars to explore cutting-edge critical approaches to Wharton's most popular novel. Re-visiting the text through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives, this book considers theories of mind and affect, digital humanities and media studies; narrational form; innocence and scandal; and the experience of reading the novel in the late twentieth century as the child of refugees. With an introduction by editor Arielle Zibrak that connects the 1920 novel to the sociocultural climate of 2020, this collection both celebrates and offers stimulating critical insights into this landmark novel of modern American literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-20
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350234482

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Arielle Zibrak is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.

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Classic literary works maintain their status by speaking to subsequent generations anew. Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) has been highly regarded since it was first published, appreciated by both scholars and general readers throughout the past century and into the 21st. Few readers of 20th-century novels can resist the sumptuous New York of 1870 that Wharton brings to life or tire of the love triangle between the main characters: Newland Archer, May Welland, and Ellen Olenska. The essays Zibrak brings together offer varied perspectives on this classic tale, some pointing toward criticism to come. Some contributors approach the book in traditional ways. For example, Carol Singley provides a cogent reading of the main characters in the context of American individualism, and Hildegard Hoeller compares the novel to Wharton’s bolder collection of novellas, Old New York (1924). Other essayists employ verb-mapping data and analyze Wharton’s ‘free indirect discourse.’ A consideration of an early film adaptation of Wharton's famous novel and a personal essay round out the collection. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesAcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesIntroduction: “Each Time You Happen to Me All Over Again”Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming1. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, and American IndividualismCarol J. Singley, Rutgers University-Camden2. Edith Wharton’s Prose Spectacle in the Age of CinemaMargaret A. Toth, Manhattan College3. “You must tell me just what to do”: Action and Characterization in Wharton’s The Age of Innocence”Gabi Kirilloff, Texas Christian University4. “Isn’t That French?”: Edith Wharton Revisits the “International Theme”Virginia Ricard, Bordeaux Montaigne University5. Newland Archer's Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational FormShari Goldberg, Franklin & Marshall College6. “Trying It On” Again as Affect: Rethinking Feeling in The Age of InnocenceMargaret Jay Jesse, University of Alabama at Birmingham7. Innocence and Scandal in Edith Wharton’s Old New YorkHildegard Hoeller, CUNY8. The Age of DissonanceBeth Nguyen, University of Wisconsin, MadisonNotesCritical BibliographyIndex