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Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age / Melanie V. Dawson.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.H16 Z6425 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Melanie, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wharton, Edith.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Aging--Literary collections.
- Aging.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mourning, melancholia, and the loss of youth
- Time and the trauma of witnessing
- Insult, injury, and age's redefinitional violence
- Watching the flame of youth
- The patriarchal family neurotic
- Rejuvenation, unage, and the authenticity of the older woman
- Old age and the embrace of the uncanny
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-351) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dawson, Melanie V., Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age
- ISBN:
- 9780813066301
- 0813066301
- OCLC:
- 1096337873
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