Age Of Innocence Nce Pa

by Waid,Candice

• ISBN13: 9780393967944
• ISBN10: 0393967948
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-20
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people " dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-- or mercilessly destroy it.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
The Text of The Age of Innocence	1	(514)
Background and Contexts
Autobiography and Biography	221	(55)
Letters
To Rutger B. Jewett, January 5, 1920	223	(1)
To Bernard Berenson, December 12, 1920	224	(1)
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, February 17, 1921	224	(2)
To Sinclair Lewis, August 6, 1921	226	(1)
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, April 11, 1927	227	(1)
[A Biographical Note on Edith Wharton]	227	(5)
Candace Waid
A Little Girl's New York	232	(16)
Edith Wharton
From A Backward Glance	248	(1)
Edith Wharton
[The Background]	248	(3)
Little Girl	251	(9)
From Edith Wharton: A Biography	260	(1)
R. W. B. Lewis
[Entry into Society]	260	(2)
[A Broken Engagement]	262	(7)
[Marriage and Sexual Ignorance]	269	(7)
Sources
Literary Sources
From Contes drolatiques	276	(1)
Honore de Balzac
Innocence	276	(1)
The Danger of Being Too Innocent	277	(7)
The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems	284	(4)
Edith Wharton
The New Frenchwoman	288	(12)
Edith Wharton
Time and Money: Economic Contexts and the Shifting Narratives of Ethnic Power
[The Source for the Beaufort Scandal]	300	(1)
The Panic: Excitement in Wall Street New York Times, September 19, 1873	300	(2)
The Financial Crisis: More Failures Yesterday New York Times, September 20, 1873	302	(1)
Panics The Nation, September 25, 1873	303	(10)
The Business of Society: Contemporary Commentary on the New York Aristocracy
``Secrets of Ball Giving'': A Chat with Ward McAllister	313	(1)
How He Came to Be a Famous Ball Organizer---Reminiscences of Cotillion Dinners	313	(1)
Beginning His Experience at Newport	313	(1)
Objects of the Patriarchs Society	314	(1)
Duplicate Invitations Prevented	315	(1)
Society's Limits Narrowing	316	(1)
Famous Dinners of Recent Years	316	(1)
From Manners and Social Usages	317	(1)
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sherwood
Preface	317	(3)
The Etiquette of Balls	320	(4)
Fashionable Dancing	324	(4)
[On Serving Roman Punch]	328	(1)
[Recipes for Roman Punch] From The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery and Cookery and Housekeeping	329	(1)
From Manners for the Metropolis: An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of the 400	330	(3)
Francis W. Crowninshield
The Myth of the Four Hundred	333	(10)
Mrs. Burton Harrison
Changing Mores in New New York: The Romance of Leisure and the Specter of Divorce
The Long Bow	343	(4)
James Maurice Thompson
[The Living Waxworks]	347	(1)
Clarence Satterlee
From The Old Curiosity Shop	348	(1)
Charles Dickens
The Language of Flowers	349	(10)
John H. Young
From Language of Flowers	359	(15)
Kate Greenaway
Divorce and Marriage in New-York New York Tribune, October 7, 1883	374	(7)
Criticism
Reviews: American
Were the Seventies Sinless?	381	(1)
Katharine Perry
As Mrs. Wharton Sees Us	382	(4)
William Lyon Phelps
An Elder America	386	(1)
Carl Van Doren
Our America	387	(2)
Henry Seidel Canby
The Book Table: Devoted to Books and Their Makers, Novels Not for a Day	389	(2)
R. D. Townsend
Mrs. Wharton's Novel of Old New York	391	(2)
Anonymous
Our Literary Aristocrat	393	(2)
Vernon L. Parrington, Jr.
Reviews: British
The Age of Innocence	395	(2)
Anonymous
The Innocence of New York	397	(1)
Anonymous
Family Portraits	398	(1)
Katherine Mansfield
The Assurance of Art	399	(2)
Frederick Watson
Modern Criticism
``To Read These Pages Is To Live Again'': The Historical Accuracy of The Age of Innocence	401	(12)
Julia Ehrhardt
Wharton's Manuscript Outlines for The Age of Innocence: Three Versions	413	(8)
Jennifer Rae Greeson
[The Age of Innocence as a Bildungsroman]	421	(12)
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art	433	(14)
Elizabeth Ammons
[Realism, Relativism, and the Discipline of Manners]	447	(14)
Nancy Bentley
Wharton, Race, and The Age of Innocence: Three Historical Contexts	461	(13)
Anne MacMaster
[Whiteness and the Powers of Darkness in The Age of Innocence]	474	(8)
Dale M. Bauer
The Well-Built Wall of Culture: Old New York and Its Harems	482	(24)
Brian T. Edwards
Scorsese's Age of Innocence: Adaptation and Intermediality	506	(9)
Brigitte Peucker
A Chronology	515	(2)
Edith Wharton
Selected Bibliography	517