The age of innocence : authoritative text, background and contexts, sources, criticism / Edith Wharton ; edited by Candace Waid.

Author: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.

Descriptionxx, 524 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes historical documents and passages from other publications contemporary with the featured work.

Note:Questions of Culture -- From "The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture against Politics" / Thomas Bender -- From "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" / George Santayana -- From "Democratic Vistas" / Walt Whitman -- From "Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" / Calvin Tomkins -- "The Location and Decoration of Houses in The Age of Innocence" / Ada Van Gastel -- From How the Other Half Lives / Jacob A. Rhs -- Marriage and Divorce -- From Domestic Revolutions / Steven Mintz, Susan Kellogg -- From "For the Wedding Night" / J. Foote Bingham -- Travel and Sport -- From the Introduction to American Travel Writers, 1850-1915 / Donald Ross, James J. Schramer -- From "Americans Abroad" / Henry James -- From "Newport" / Henry James -- From "The Lawn Set" / William J. Baker -- Anthropology -- From Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard -- From Primitive Culture / Edward B. Tylor -- Other Writings / Edith Wharton -- 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" / Alan Price -- From "Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art" / Elizabeth Ammons -- From "Becoming the Mask: Edith Wharton's Ingenues" / Judith P. Saunders -- From "Angel of Devastation: Edith Wharton on the Arts of the Enslaved" / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-523).

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