Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780813066301
Subjects: American literature
Description: "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"--