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Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Aging > Literary collections.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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