Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age / Melanie V. Dawson.

Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967- author.

ImprintGainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Imprint2020

Descriptionxii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:Mourning, melancholia, and the loss of youth -- Time and the trauma of witnessing -- Insult, injury, and age's redefinitional violence -- Watching the flame of youth -- The patriarchal family neurotic -- Rejuvenation, unage, and the authenticity of the older woman -- Old age and the embrace of the aged uncanny.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index.

Note:"Focusing on the works of Edith Wharton and her contemporaries, Melanie Dawson discusses representations of modern American identities past early youth in twentieth-century literature. Dawson sets Wharton's work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture."-- Provided by publisher.

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