EDITH WHARTON'S THE AGE OF INNOCENCE new centenary essays;new centenary essays

"With The Age of Innocence ,published 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. Along the way this book revisits the novel through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives, from ecocritical and digital humanities approaches to book history, media, gender and critical race studies. The book also includes a reflective chapter by award-winning novelist Bich Minh Nguyen on her first experience reading The Age of Innocence as teenage immigrant, recently arrived in America from Vietnam."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Contents List of Tables Acknowledgments 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 Jessee, 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 Wisconsin, Madison Notes Critical Bibliography Index "With The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has appeared on almost every "Best American Novels" list, has been adapted to film, television, and theatre multiple times, has inspired contemporary rewritings, and is regularly cited as a favorite text by present-day authors including Beth Nguyen, whose essay on reading The Age of Innocence as the teenage daughter of refugees appears in this volume. 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. Along the way this book revisits the novel through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives?́"from theories of mind and affect to the digital humanities and media studies. The book also includes an introduction by editor Arielle Zibrak that connects the 1920 novel to the sociocultural climate of 2020."-- Provided by publisher "With The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has appeared on almost every "Best American Novels" list, has been adapted to film, television, and theatre multiple times, has inspired contemporary rewritings, and is regularly cited as a favorite text by present-day authors including Beth Nguyen, whose essay on reading The Age of Innocence as the teenage daughter of refugees appears in this volume. 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. Along the way this book revisits the novel through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectiveś€"from theories of mind and affect to the digital humanities and media studies. The book also includes an introduction by editor Arielle Zibrak that connects the 1920 novel to the sociocultural climate of 2020"-- Provided by publisher 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.