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Tables of Contents for The Age of Innocence
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
The Text of The Age of Innocence
1
514
Background and Contexts
Autobiography and Biography
221
55
Letters
To Rutger B. Jewett, January 5, 1920
223
1
To Bernard Berenson, December 12, 1920
224
1
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, February 17, 1921
224
2
To Sinclair Lewis, August 6, 1921
226
1
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, April 11, 1927
227
1
[A Biographical Note on Edith Wharton]
227
5
Candace Waid
A Little Girl's New York
232
16
Edith Wharton
From A Backward Glance
248
1
Edith Wharton
[The Background]
248
3
Little Girl
251
9
From Edith Wharton: A Biography
260
1
R. W. B. Lewis
[Entry into Society]
260
2
[A Broken Engagement]
262
7
[Marriage and Sexual Ignorance]
269
7
Sources
Literary Sources
From Contes drolatiques
276
1
Honore de Balzac
Innocence
276
1
The Danger of Being Too Innocent
277
7
The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems
284
4
Edith Wharton
The New Frenchwoman
288
12
Edith Wharton
Time and Money: Economic Contexts and the Shifting Narratives of Ethnic Power
[The Source for the Beaufort Scandal]
300
1
The Panic: Excitement in Wall Street New York Times, September 19, 1873
300
2
The Financial Crisis: More Failures Yesterday New York Times, September 20, 1873
302
1
Panics The Nation, September 25, 1873
303
10
The Business of Society: Contemporary Commentary on the New York Aristocracy
``Secrets of Ball Giving'': A Chat with Ward McAllister
313
1
How He Came to Be a Famous Ball Organizer---Reminiscences of Cotillion Dinners
313
1
Beginning His Experience at Newport
313
1
Objects of the Patriarchs Society
314
1
Duplicate Invitations Prevented
315
1
Society's Limits Narrowing
316
1
Famous Dinners of Recent Years
316
1
From Manners and Social Usages
317
1
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sherwood
Preface
317
3
The Etiquette of Balls
320
4
Fashionable Dancing
324
4
[On Serving Roman Punch]
328
1
[Recipes for Roman Punch] From The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery and Cookery and Housekeeping
329
1
From Manners for the Metropolis: An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of the 400
330
3
Francis W. Crowninshield
The Myth of the Four Hundred
333
10
Mrs. Burton Harrison
Changing Mores in New New York: The Romance of Leisure and the Specter of Divorce
The Long Bow
343
4
James Maurice Thompson
[The Living Waxworks]
347
1
Clarence Satterlee
From The Old Curiosity Shop
348
1
Charles Dickens
The Language of Flowers
349
10
John H. Young
From Language of Flowers
359
15
Kate Greenaway
Divorce and Marriage in New-York New York Tribune, October 7, 1883
374
7
Criticism
Reviews: American
Were the Seventies Sinless?
381
1
Katharine Perry
As Mrs. Wharton Sees Us
382
4
William Lyon Phelps
An Elder America
386
1
Carl Van Doren
Our America
387
2
Henry Seidel Canby
The Book Table: Devoted to Books and Their Makers, Novels Not for a Day
389
2
R. D. Townsend
Mrs. Wharton's Novel of Old New York
391
2
Anonymous
Our Literary Aristocrat
393
2
Vernon L. Parrington, Jr.
Reviews: British
The Age of Innocence
395
2
Anonymous
The Innocence of New York
397
1
Anonymous
Family Portraits
398
1
Katherine Mansfield
The Assurance of Art
399
2
Frederick Watson
Modern Criticism
``To Read These Pages Is To Live Again'': The Historical Accuracy of The Age of Innocence
401
12
Julia Ehrhardt
Wharton's Manuscript Outlines for The Age of Innocence: Three Versions
413
8
Jennifer Rae Greeson
[The Age of Innocence as a Bildungsroman]
421
12
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art
433
14
Elizabeth Ammons
[Realism, Relativism, and the Discipline of Manners]
447
14
Nancy Bentley
Wharton, Race, and The Age of Innocence: Three Historical Contexts
461
13
Anne MacMaster
[Whiteness and the Powers of Darkness in The Age of Innocence]
474
8
Dale M. Bauer
The Well-Built Wall of Culture: Old New York and Its Harems
482
24
Brian T. Edwards
Scorsese's Age of Innocence: Adaptation and Intermediality
506
9
Brigitte Peucker
A Chronology
515
2
Edith Wharton
Selected Bibliography
517