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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393967948
ISBN-139780393967944
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Product Key Features
Book TitleAge of Innocence
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFamily Life, American / General, Literary
Publication Year2002
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorEdith Wharton
Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.7 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.3 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN00-026408
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsCandace Waid's authoritative edition of The Age of Innocence is accompanied by a collection of exceptionally illuminating biographical, critical, and historical texts. In particular, her richly researched assemblage of period comments on 'old New York' (including an astonishing recipe for 'Roman Punch' and some sardonic analyses of 'Manners for the Metropolis') wonderfully captures the often nearly lunatic ferocity of the society in which Wharton's great novel is so brilliantly set., Candace Waid's Norton Critical Edition of The Age of Innocence is a work of deep scholarship and sensitive attention to the interests of contemporary readers. It will be the indispensable guide for readers of Wharton's novel, brought to new life in this imposing edition. Professor Waid has reconstructed the cultural setting of the novel with amazingly abundant detail. The reach and pertinence of its historical sections, the selection of exciting new criticism and scholarship, and the editor's own learned, cogent, and engaging notes to the text itself all combine to make this volume a rousingly significant contribution to Wharton studies and to Gilded Age scholarship in general.
Grade FromNinth Grade
Series Volume Number0
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813.52
Edition DescriptionCritical
Table Of ContentList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction The Text of The Age of InnocenceBackgrounds and ContextsLetters: To Rutger B. Jewett, January 5, 1920To Bernard Berenson, December 12, 1920To Sinclair Lewis, August 6, 1921To Mary Cadwalader Jones, April 11, 1927To Mary Cadwalader Jones, February 17, 1921Autobiography and Biography: Candace Waid * [Biographical Note on Edith Wharton]Edith Wharton * A Little Girl's New YorkEdith Wharton * From A Backward Glance[The Background][Little Girl]R.W.B. Lewis * From Edith Wharton: A Biography[Entry into Society][A Broken Engagement][Marriage and Sexual Ignorance]Sources: Literary Sources: Honoré de Balzac * From Contes drôlatiquesInnocenceThe Danger of Being Too InnocentEdith Wharton * The Valley of Childish Things, and Other EmblemsEdith Wharton * The New FrenchwomanTime and Money: Economic Contexts and the Shifting Narratives of Ethnic Power: The Source for the Beaufort ScandalThe Panic: Excitement in Wall Street * New York Times, September 19, 1873The Financial Crisis: More Failures Yesterday * New York Times, September 20, 1873Panics * The Nation, September 25, 1873The Business of Society: Contemporary Commentary on the New York Aristocracy: "Secrets of Ball Giving": A Chat with Ward McAllisterRecipes for Roman PunchM.E.W. Sherwood * From Manners and Social UsagesHow He Came to be a Famous Ball Organizer--Reminiscences of Cotillion DinnersBeginning His Experiment at NewportObjects of the Patriarch's SocietyDuplicate Invitations PresentedSociety's Limits NarrowingFamous Dinners of Recent YearsThe Etiquette of BallsFashionable DancingOn Serving Roman PunchFrancis W. Crowninshield * From Manners for the Metropolis: An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of the 400Mrs. Burton Harrison * The Myth of the Four HundredLeisure: High and Low: James Maurice Thompson * The Long BowW. Gurney Benham * [The Living Waxworks]Kate Greenaway * From Language of FlowersJohn H. Young * The Language of FlowersDivorce and Marriage in New York * The New York Tribune, October 7, 1883Criticism: Reviews: American and British: Katharine Perry * Were the Seventies Sinless?William Lyon Phelps * As Mrs. Wharton Sees UsHenry Seidel Canby * Our AmericaCarl Van Doren * An Elder AmericaR. D. Townshend * The Book Table: Devoted to Books and Their Makers, Novels Notfor a DayMrs. Wharton's Novel of Old New YorkVernon L. Parrington, Jr. * Our Literary AristocratThe Age of InnocenceThe Innocence of New YorkKatherine Mansfield * Family PortraitsFrederick Watson * The Assurance of ArtModern Criticsm: Julia Ehrhardt * "The Read These Pages Is to Live Again": The Historical Accuracy ofThe Age of InnocenceJennifer Rae Greeson * Wharton's Manuscript Outlines for The Age of Innocence: Three VersionsCynthia Griffin Wolff * The Age of Innocence as BildungsromanElizabeth Ammons * Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and ArtNancy Bentley * [Realism, Relativism, and the Discipline of Manners]Anne MacMaster * Wharton, Race, and The Age of Innocence: Three HistoricalContextsDale M. Bauer * [Whiteness and the Power of Darkness in The Age of Innocence]Brian T. Edwards * The Well-Built Wall of Culture: Old New York and Its HaremsBrigitte Peuker * Scorsese's Age of Innocence: Adaptation and IntermedialityEdith Wharton: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
SynopsisContexts constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the New York Four Hundred, elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings. Criticism collects eleven American and British contemporary reviews and nine major essays on The Age of Innocence , including a groundbreaking piece on the two film adaptations of the novel. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included., "Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings. "Criticism" collects eleven American and British contemporary reviews and nine major essays on The Age of Innocence, including a groundbreaking piece on the two film adaptations of the novel. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included., The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novelof desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorouslyannotated by a prominent Wharton scholar., "Criticism" collects eleven American and British contemporary reviews and nine major essays on The Age of Innocence , including a groundbreaking piece on the two film adaptations of the novel. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16A7 2000
