Edith Wharton and the modern privileges of age / by Melanie V. Dawson.
"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...
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University Press of Florida,
[2020]
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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.