The age of innocence /
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作 者：by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis.
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ISBN：9780553214505
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edith wharton's masterpiece,first published in 1920,brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age.set among the very rich in 1870s new york,it tells the mesmerizing story of a man caught between his passion and society's demands.newland archer is a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite may welland,when he meets her cousin,countess ellen olenska,a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal.archer considers his fiancee an innocent ,her worldly cousin a femme fatale.as all three are arawn into a love triangle filled with sensuality,subtlety,and betrayal,archer faces a harrowing choice between happiness and the social code that has ruled his entire life,the result ia a tale of thwarted love filled with irony and surprise,struggle and acceptance,recipient of the first pulitzer prizefor fiction ever awarded to a woman,this gregt novel of manners paints a timeless portrait of "society"still unmatched in american literature-an arbitrary,capricious social elite that professes inviolable standards,but will readily abolish them for money,or abandon them for desire.
作者简介:
edith wharton the upper stratum of new york society into which edith wharton was born in 1862provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.educated by tutors and governesses,she was raised for only one career:marriage.but her marriage,in 1885,to edward wharton was an emotional disappointment ,if not a disaster.she suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1984.in spite of the strain of her marriage,or perhaps because of it ,she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.
目录
About This Series p. ix
Introduction p. 1
A Note on the Text p. 10
Part 1 The Age of Innocence p. 11
Part 2 Background Readings p. 287
Questions of Culture p. 289
From "The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture against Politics" Thomas Bender p. 289
From "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" George Santayana p. 294
From "Democratic Vistas" Walt Whitman p. 300
From "Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Calvin Tomkins p. 303
"The Location and Decoration of Houses in The Age of Innocence" Ada Van Gastel p. 318
From How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Rhs p. 332
Marriage and Divorce p. 338
From Domestic Revolutions Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg p. 338
From "For the Wedding Night" J. Foote Bingham p. 345
Travel and Sport p. 348
From the Introduction to American Travel Writers, 1850-1915 Donald Ross and James J. Schramer p. 349
From "Americans Abroad" Henry James p. 355
From "Newport" Henry James p. 357
From "The Lawn Set" William J. Baker p. 359
Anthropology p. 364
From Violence and the Sacred Rene Girard p. 364
From Primitive Culture Edward B. Tylor p. 366
Part 3 Other Writings Edith Wharton p. 369
Writing The Age of Innocence p. 371
The Ways of Old New York p. 372
The Childishness of American Women p. 378
"The Valley of Childish Things" p. 380
Winning the Pulitizer Prize p. 381
Part 4 Critical Readings p. 385
From "The Composition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence" Alan Price p. 387
From "Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art" Elizabeth Ammons p. 393
From "Becoming the Mask: Edith Wharton's Ingenues" Judith P. Saunders p. 404
From "Angel of Devastation: Edith Wharton on the Arts of the Enslaved" Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar p. 408
From "The Age of Innocence and the Bohemian Peril" Katherine Joslin p. 411
From "Edith Wharton: The Archeological Motive" James W. Tuttleton p. 414
From "'Hunting for the Real': Wharton and the Science of Manners" Nancy Bentley p. 418
From "A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust" Linda W. Wagner p. 430
From "The Mind in Chains: Public Plots and Personal Fables" Gary H. Lindberg p. 432
From "American Naturalism in Its 'Perfected' State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy" Donald Pizer p. 434
From "The Scorses Interview: On Filming The Age of Innocence" Ian Christie p. 441
"Of Writers and Class: In Praise of Edith Wharton" Gore Vidal p. 448
Works Cited p. 454
For Further Reading p. 455
Introduction p. 1
A Note on the Text p. 10
Part 1 The Age of Innocence p. 11
Part 2 Background Readings p. 287
Questions of Culture p. 289
From "The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture against Politics" Thomas Bender p. 289
From "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" George Santayana p. 294
From "Democratic Vistas" Walt Whitman p. 300
From "Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Calvin Tomkins p. 303
"The Location and Decoration of Houses in The Age of Innocence" Ada Van Gastel p. 318
From How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Rhs p. 332
Marriage and Divorce p. 338
From Domestic Revolutions Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg p. 338
From "For the Wedding Night" J. Foote Bingham p. 345
Travel and Sport p. 348
From the Introduction to American Travel Writers, 1850-1915 Donald Ross and James J. Schramer p. 349
From "Americans Abroad" Henry James p. 355
From "Newport" Henry James p. 357
From "The Lawn Set" William J. Baker p. 359
Anthropology p. 364
From Violence and the Sacred Rene Girard p. 364
From Primitive Culture Edward B. Tylor p. 366
Part 3 Other Writings Edith Wharton p. 369
Writing The Age of Innocence p. 371
The Ways of Old New York p. 372
The Childishness of American Women p. 378
"The Valley of Childish Things" p. 380
Winning the Pulitizer Prize p. 381
Part 4 Critical Readings p. 385
From "The Composition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence" Alan Price p. 387
From "Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art" Elizabeth Ammons p. 393
From "Becoming the Mask: Edith Wharton's Ingenues" Judith P. Saunders p. 404
From "Angel of Devastation: Edith Wharton on the Arts of the Enslaved" Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar p. 408
From "The Age of Innocence and the Bohemian Peril" Katherine Joslin p. 411
From "Edith Wharton: The Archeological Motive" James W. Tuttleton p. 414
From "'Hunting for the Real': Wharton and the Science of Manners" Nancy Bentley p. 418
From "A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust" Linda W. Wagner p. 430
From "The Mind in Chains: Public Plots and Personal Fables" Gary H. Lindberg p. 432
From "American Naturalism in Its 'Perfected' State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy" Donald Pizer p. 434
From "The Scorses Interview: On Filming The Age of Innocence" Ian Christie p. 441
"Of Writers and Class: In Praise of Edith Wharton" Gore Vidal p. 448
Works Cited p. 454
For Further Reading p. 455
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