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The text of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotations. "Contexts" constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on "The New York Four Hundred" elite social gatherings and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper class) among others. Also featured in this section are contemporary reviews, some of Wharton's letters, related writings and manuscript outlines. "Criticism" features thirteen major essays on the novel, by Julia Ehrhardt, R.W.B. Lewis, Janet Goodwin, Nancy Bentley, Brian Edwards, Anne Macmasters, Dale Bauer, Elizabeth Ammons, Judith Fryer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Linda Wagner Martin, Candace Waid and a ground-breaking piece on film adaptations of the novel by Brigette Peucker. A selected bibliography is included.
Synopsis:
The text of Edith Warton's Pultizer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotations.
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length: (cm)23.3 width:(cm)14.4
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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
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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