Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age

2020 Aging

Author : Melanie Dawson
Release : 2020
Genre : Aging
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age written by Melanie Dawson. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age

2020-02-17 Literary Criticism

Author : Melanie V. Dawson
Release : 2020-02-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 418/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age written by Melanie V. Dawson. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a counterpoint to readings of modern American culture that focus on the cult of youth, Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age interrogates early twentieth-century literature’s obsessions with aging past early youth. Exploring the ways in which the aging process was understood as generating unequal privileges and as inciting intergenerational contests, this study situates constructions of age at the center of modern narrative conflicts. Dawson examines how representations of aging connect the work of Edith Wharton to writings by a number of modern authors, including Willa Cather, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Floyd Dell, Eugene O’Neill, and Gertrude Atherton. For these writers, age-based ideologies filter through narratives of mourning for youth lost in the Great War, the trauma connected to personal change, the contested self-determination of the aged, the perceived problem of middle-aged sexuality, fantasies of rejuvenation, and persistent patterns of patriarchal authority. The work of these writers shows that as the generational ascendancy of some groups was imagined to operate in tandem with disempowerment of others, the charged dynamics of age gave rise to contests about property and authority. Constructions of age-based values also reinforced gender norms, producing questions about personal value that were directed toward women of all ages. By interpreting Edith Wharton’s and her contemporaries’ works in relation to age-based anxieties, Dawson sets Wharton’s work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

2022-10-20 Literary Criticism

Author : Emily Orlando
Release : 2022-10-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton written by Emily Orlando. This book was released on 2022-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

A Son at the Front

2023-02-21 Literary Criticism

Author : Edith Wharton
Release : 2023-02-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 337/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Son at the Front written by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2023-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.

The Age of Innocence

2018-04-05 Fiction

Author : Edith Wharton
Release : 2018-04-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

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