Edith Wharton's the age of innocence / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's notes

Bloom's notes Edith Wharton's The age of innocence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence--Examinations--Study guides.

Wharton, Edith.

Genre:

Study guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p. )

Other Title:

Age of innocence

Place of Publication:

Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Critical views

Social formalism in the novel / Carl Van Doren ; Wharton's analytical style / Q. D. Leavis ; Central male characters in the novel / Edmund Wilson ; Irony in the novel / Blake Nevius ; Wharton's imagery / Viola Hopkins ; New York of Wharton's childhood / Louis Auchincloss ; Characters and merits of the novel / Grace K. S. Smith ; Wharton's flaws in character delineation / Arthur Mizener ; Newland Archer, Ellen Olenska, and society / R. W. B. Lewis ; Wharton's narrative strategy / Gary H. Lindberg ; Newland Archer's conventionality / Margaret B. McDowall ; Novel and The portrait of a lady / Cynthia G. Wolff ; Social change depicted in the novel / Sidney H. Bremer ; Henry James's influence on Wharton / Cushing Strout ; High society in Wharton's New York / Carol Wershoven ; Moral choices of the novel's characters / Wendy Gimbel ; Newland Archer's limited vision / Susan Goodman ; Wharton's use of passion in the novel / David Holbrook ; Society's ambivalence toward women / Katherine Joslin ; Gothic elements in the novel / Kathy A. Fedorko.

Notes:

"A contemporary literary views book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-25740-X