Title: Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age /
Authors: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, Criticism and interpretation.; Wharton, Edith,; Aging Literary collections; Aging
Abstract: "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"--
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