Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Aging > Literary collections.
Vieillissement > Anthologies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aging.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary collections.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 aged uncanny

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