Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence
Subtitle: New Centenary Essays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350065543
Subjects: Wharton, edith, 1862-1937
Description: "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.