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9780393967944

Age Of Innocence Nce Pa

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    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

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