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Following the publication of The Age of Innocence in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. To mark 100 years since the book's first publication, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays brings together leading scholars to explore cutting-edge critical approaches to Wharton's most popular novel. Re-visiting the text through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives, this book considers theories of mind and affect, digital humanities and media studies; narrational form; innocence and scandal; and the experience of reading the novel in the late twentieth century as the child of refugees. With an introduction by editor Arielle Zibrak that connects the 1920 novel to the sociocultural climate of 2020, this collection both celebrates and offers stimulating critical insights into this landmark novel of modern American literature.

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Author:   Professor Arielle Zibrak (University of Wyoming, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781350065543

ISBN 10:   1350065544
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Introduction: Each Time You Happen to Me All Over Again Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming 1. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, and American Individualism Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University-Camden 2. Edith Wharton's Prose Spectacle in the Age of Cinema Margaret A. Toth, Manhattan College 3. You must tell me just what to do : Action and Characterization in Wharton's The Age of Innocence Gabi Kirilloff, Texas Christian University 4. Isn't That French? : Edith Wharton Revisits the International Theme Virginia Ricard, Bordeaux Montaigne University 5. Newland Archer's Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational Form Shari Goldberg, Franklin & Marshall College 6. Trying It On Again as Affect: Rethinking Feeling in The Age of Innocence Margaret Jay Jesse, University of Alabama at Birmingham 7. Innocence and Scandal in Edith Wharton's Old New York Hildegard Hoeller, CUNY 8. The Age of Dissonance Beth Nguyen, University of San Francisco Notes Critical Bibliography

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Individualism, ambivalence, scandal, and belonging--all of these are associated with Wharton's The Age of Innocence, in this stunning new collection of essays. Zibrak orchestrates a whole new set of innovative readings of the novel--and the 1934 film based on it. These essays treat its modernist affect and narrative style, along with its status as an international novel with France as its focus. In moving from a new digital study of Wharton's verbs to the historical status of psychology before 1920, to the novel's relation to Wharton's Old New York novellas and her various plots for Age, this collection soars. It heralds a new energy that will advance Wharton Studies anew. * Dale M. Bauer, Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *

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Arielle Zibrak is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.

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