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1 de nov. de 2019 · The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’. In some ways, Edith Wharton’s classic novel feels more current than ever. Elif Batuman explains. A literary “classic” is a recurring character in one ...
Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial ...
23 de set. de 2020 · A funny story. Edith Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921 (it was published in 1920), but the jury had originally chosen to award it to Sinclair Lewis ...
In order to contextualize Edith Wharton’s life and work, it is helpful to understand the narrow, elite world of the New York 400 into which Wharton was born, the circumstances of her life, and the world around her in both America and Europe. Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones in 1862, was an aspiring writer from the
23 de ago. de 2023 · Aug. 23, 2023. Edith Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, “A Backward Glance,” glances a bit more carefully at some things than others. She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry ...
Edith Wharton era una gran admiradora de la cultura y arquitectura europea, lo que le hizo cruzar el Atlántico un total de 66 veces antes de morir. 14 . En 1907 se estableció definitivamente en Francia, donde fue discípula y amiga de Henry James. Primero se instaló en París y a partir de 1919 en sus dos casas de campo, Pavilion Colombe en ...
Ethan Frome: A Controversy about Modernizing It R. B. Hovey Anyone now trying to deal with the art and meanings of Ethan Frome must reckon, in particular, with two recent studies by enter prising scholar-critics. The first is Cynthia Griffin Wolffs stimulating interpretation in A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton
