Selected Bibliography of Recent Criticism
The Age of Innocence

Aaron, Daniel. "Three Old Women." Queen's Quarterly 102.3 (1995): 633-39.

Ali, Melina. "Resistance or Resignation: Moral Ambivalence in Social Beings' Quest for Self-Fulfillment in the Selected Works of Theodor Fontane, Anthony Trollope, and Edith Wharton." U of Maryland College Park, 1994.

Ammons, Elizabeth. "Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art." American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism. Ed. Fritz Fleischmann. Boston: Hall, 1982. 209-24.

Annan, Gabriele. "Review 'Fast and Loose' and  'The Buccaneers' by Edith Wharton, Completed by Marion Mainwaring; The Age of Innocence, Directed by Martin Scorsese; The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film by Martin Scorsese;  and Jay Cocks,  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton." The New York Review of Books XL.18 (1993): 3.

Asya, Ferda. "Resolutions of Guilt: Cultural Values Reconsidered in Custom of the Country and the Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 15-20.

Balestra, Gianfranca. "La Citta Geroglifica Di Edith Wharton." La Citta Delle Donne: Immaginario Urbano E Letteratura Del Novecento. Ed. Oriana Palusci. Turin, Italy: Tirrenia, 1992. 87-100.

Bentley, Nancy. "'Hunting for the Real': Wharton and the Science of Manners." The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Ed. Millicent Bell. Cambridge Companions to Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 47-67.

Blackall, Jean Frantz. "The Intrusive Voice: Telegrams in the House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.2 (1991): 163-68.

Bloom, Harold. Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence. Bloom's Notes. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

Bolton, James. "The Age of Innocence: The Taboo of Intergenerational Romance." Independent Film and Video Monthly 24.10 (2001): 13.

Boydston, Jeanne. "'Grave Endearing Traditions': Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel." Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Ed. Alice --McBrien Kessler-Harris, William. Contribs. In Women's Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 31-40.

Bratton, Daniel Lance. "Conspicuous Consumption and Conspicuous Leisure in the Novels of Edith Wharton." Diss., 1984.

Bremer, Sidney H. "American Dreams and American Cities in Three Post-World War I Novels." South Atlantic Quarterly 79 (1980): 274-85.

Cahir, Linda Costanza. "The Perils of Politeness in a New Age: Edith Wharton, Martin Scorsese and The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 10.2 (1993): 12-14, 19.

Candido, Joseph. "Edith Wharton's Final Alterations of the Age of Innocence." Studies in American Fiction 6 (1978): 21-31.

Cartwright, Faith C.W. "The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: A Critical and Annotated Edition." Diss., 1971.

Castellitto, George P. "Imagism and Martin Scorsese: Images Suspended and Extended." Literature/Film Quarterly 26.1 (1998): 23-29.

Celly, Anu. "Barricaded by Banalities of Evasion: Women in the Age of Innocence." Indian Journal of American Studies 28.1-2 (1998): 37-47.

Christie, Ian. "The Scorsese Interview." Sight and Sound 4.2 (1994): 10-15.

Coolidge, Olivia E. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. New York,: Scribner, 1964.

Cuddy, Lois A. "Triangles of Defeat and Liberation: The Quest for Power in Edith Wharton's Fiction." Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 8 (1982): 18-26.

Das, Dilip K. "The American Family in Transition: Some Turn-of-the-Century Images." Indian Journal of American Studies 21.2 (1991): 47-54.

Davis, Linette. "Vulgarity and Red Blood in the Age of Innocence." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 20.2 (1987): 1-8.

Dessner, Lawrence Jay. "Edith Wharton and the Problem of Form." Ball State University Forum 24.3 (1983): 54-63.

Doyle, Charles C. "Emblems of Innocence: Imagery Patterns in Wharton's The Age of Innocence." Xavier University Studies 10.2 (1971): 19-25.

Durczak, Joanna. "America and Europe in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence." Polish-American Literary Confrontations. Ed. Joanna --Durczak Durczak, Jerzy. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska UP, 1995. 35-47.

Eby, Clare Virginia. "Silencing Women in Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Colby Quarterly 28.2 (1992): 93-104.
Edel, Leon. "Summers in an Age of Innocence: In France with Edith Wharton." New York Times Book Review (1991): 3, 44,46.
Evans, Elizabeth. "Musical Allusions in the Age of Innocence." Notes on Contemporary Literature 4.3 (1974): 4-7.
Finucci, Valeria. "A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love." 1983.
Fracasso, Evelyn E. "The Transparent Eyes of May Welland in Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Modern Language Studies 21.4 (1991): 43-48.
Fryer, Judith. "Purity and Power in the Age of Innocence." American Literary Realism 17.2 (1984): 153-68.
Gargano, James W. "Tableaux of Renunciation: Wharton's Use of the Shaughran in the Age of Innocence." Studies in American Fiction 15.1 (1987): 1-11.
Gibson, Mary Ellis. "Edith Wharton and the Ethnography of Old New York." Studies in American Fiction 13.1 (1985): 57-69.
Godfrey, David A. "'the Full and Elaborate Vocabulary of Evasion': The Language of Cowardice in Edith Wharton's Old New York." Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 30.1 (1988): 27-44.
Grenier, Richard. "Society & Edith Wharton." Commentary 96.6 (1993): 48-52.
Hadley, Kathy Miller. "Ironic Structure and Untold Stories in the Age of Innocence." Studies in the Novel 23.2 (1991): 262-72.
Hatch, Ronald B. "Edith Wharton: A Forward Glance." The Twenties. Ed. Barbara Smith (pref.) Lemeunier. Aix-en-Provence: Univ. de Provence, 1982. 7-20.
Helmetag, Charles H. "Recreating Edith Wharton's New York in Martin Scorsese's the Age of Innocence." Literature/Film Quarterly 26.3 (1998): 162-65.
Howe, Irving Ed. Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views Series, 1962.
Jacobson, Irving. "Perception, Communication, and Growth as Correlative Theme in Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Agora: A Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2.2 (1973): 68-82.
Jacobson, Irving F. "Perception, Communication, and Growth as Correlative Themes in Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Agora: A Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2.2 (1973): 68-82.
Jagoe, Ann Spotswood. "Rhetoric in the Service of Art: Argument in Edith Wharton's 'the House of Mirth' and 'the Age of Innocence'." Texas Woman's U, 1997.
Kekes, John. "The Great Guide of Human Life." Philosophy and Literature 8.2 (1984): 236-49.
Killoran, Helen, and Alan Price. "The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War." American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography 69.1 (1997): 1.
Knights, Pamela. "Forms of Disembodiment: The Social Subject in the Age of Innocence." The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Ed. Millicent Bell. Cambridge Companions to Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 20-46.
Kundu, Gautam. "The Houses That Edith Wharton Built: The Significance of the Van Der Luydens' Italian Villa and the Patroon's Rock Cottage in the Age of Innocence." Indian Journal of American Studies 13.1 (1983): 127-31.
Lamar, Lillie B. "Edith Wharton's Foreknowledge in the Age of Innocence." Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities 8 (1966): 385-89.
Lee, Robert A. "Watching Manners: Martin Scorsese's the Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's the Age of Innnocence." The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen. Ed. Robert --Sheen Giddings, Erica. Manchester, England--New York, NY: Manchester UP--St. Martin's, 2000. 163-78.
Lewis, R. W. B., introd. The Age of Innocence. New York: Scribner, 1968.
Lewis, R. W. B., ed. and notes, ed. Novels: The House of Mirth, the Reef, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence. New York, NY: Library of America, 1985.
Likhachev, Dmitri, tr., and Margaret Tate. "The Age of Innocence and Its Rational Essence." Soviet Literature 7 (472) (1987): 77-99.
Marcus, James. "The End of Innocence: Edith Wharton between Two Worlds." Village Voice Lit. Supp. 69 (1988): 15-17.
Martin, Robert K. "Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne." Henry James Review 21.1 (2000): 56-62.
---. "Ages of Innocence: Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne." Henry James Review 21.1 (2000): 56-62.
Mayne, Gilles. "About the Displacement of Certain Words in the Age of Innocence: A Bataillian Reading." Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 8-14.
McWilliams, Jim. "Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Explicator 48.4 (1990): 268-70.
Mizener, Arthur. Twelve Great American Novels. New York: New Amer. Lib., 1967.
Morgan, Gwendolyn. "The Unsung Heroine: A Study of May Welland in the Age of Innocence." Heroines of Popular Culture. Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1987. 32-40.
Murphy, John J. "The Satiric Structure of Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Markham Review 2.3 (1970): (1)-(4).
---. "Imitation and Anticipation of 'Mrs. Wharton' - Cather's Alexander's Bridge." Edith Wharton Review 7.2 (1990): 10-12.
---. "Filters, Portraits, and History's Mixed Bag': A Lost Lady and The Age of Innocence." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 38.4 (1992): 476-85.

Niall, Brenda. "Prufrock in Brownstone: Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Southern Review: Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays 4 (1971): 203-14.
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Orlando, Emily J. "Rereading Wharton's 'Poor Archer': A Mr. 'Might-Have-Been' in the Age of Innocence." American Literary Realism 30.2 (1998): 56-77.

Peucker, Brigitte. "Rival Arts? Filming the Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 13.1 (1996): 19-22.

Pimple, Kenneth D. "Edith Wharton's 'Inscrutable Totem Terrors': Ethnography and the Age of Innocence." Southern Folklore 51.2 (1994): 137-52.

Pizer, Donald. "American Naturalism in Its 'Perfected' State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy." Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays. Ed. Alfred (ed. & introd.)--Zilversmit Bendixen, Annette. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. New York: Garland, 1992. 127-41.

Poder, Elfriede. "Concepts and Visions of 'the Other': The Place of 'Woman' in the Age of Innocence, Melanctha, and Nightwood." Women in Search of Literary Space. Ed. Gudrun M. --Devine Grabher, Maureen. Buchreihe Zu Den Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik. Tubingen: Narr, 1992. 113-33.

Price, Alan. "The Composition of Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Yale University Library Gazette 55 (1980): 22-30.

Robinson, James A. "Psychological Determinism in the Age of Innocence." Markham Review 5 (1975): 1-5.

Salecl, Renata. "Love: Providence or Despair." New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 23 (1994): 13-24.

---. "I Can't Love You Unless I Give You Up." Gaze and Voice as Love Objects. Ed. Renata --Zizek Salecl, Slavoj. Sic. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996. 179-207.
Saunders, Judith P. "Becoming the Mask: Edith Wharton's Ingenues." Massachusetts Studies in English 8.4 (1982): 33-39.

Scheick, William J. "Cupid without Bow and Arrow: The Age of Innocence and the Golden Bough." Edith Wharton Newsletter 2.1 (1985): 2-5.

Schwarz, Ann. "One Teacher's Portrait: Reading and Teaching through Edith Wharton's Silences." Teachers College, 2000.

Scorsese, Martin, and Jay Cocks. The Age of Innocence : The Shooting Script. A Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book. 1st ed. New York: Newmarket Press, 1995.

Scorsese, Martin, Jay Cocks, and Robin Standefer. The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton. 1st ed. New York: Newmarket Press, 1993.

Strout, Cushing. "Complementary Portraits: James's Lady and Wharton's Age." The Hudson Review 35.3 (1982): 405-15.

Taubin, Amy. "Dread and Desire." Sight and Sound 3.12 (1993): 6-9.

Tintner, Adeline R. "Jamesian Structures in the Age of Innocence and Related Stories." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 26 (1980): 332-47.

Trumpener, Katie, and James M. Nyce. "The Recovered Fragments: Archeological and Anthropological Perspectives in Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Literary Anthropology: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to People, Signs and Literature. Ed. Fernando Poyatos. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1988. 161-69.

Turk, Ruth. Edith Wharton : Beyond the Age of Innocence. 1st ed. Greensboro, NC: Tudor Publishers, 1998.

Tuttleton, James W. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton). Sound recording. Everett/Edwards, 1970.

Updike, John. "Archer's Way." New York Review of Books 42.19 (1995): 16, 18.

Van Gastel, Ada. "The Location and Decoration of Houses in the Age of Innocence." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 20.2 (1990): 138-53.

Wagner, Linda W. "A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust." Edith Wharton Newsletter 3.1 (1986): 1, 8.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Age of Innocence : A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Weckerle, Lisa Jeanne. "Revisioning Narratives: Feminist Adaptation Strategies on Stage and Screen." U of Texas Austin, 2000.

Wershoven, Carol. "America's Child Brides: The Price of a Bad Bargain." Portraits of Marriage in Literature. Ed. Anne C. --Magliocco Hargrove, Maurine. Macomb, IL: Essays in Lit., 1984. 151-57.

Wharton, Edith, and Carol J. Singley. The Age of Innocence : Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays. New Riverside Editions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Wharton, Edith, and Candace Waid. The Age of Innocence : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Norton critical ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Williams, Merle A. "Henry James and the Redemption of 'Awkward' Concepts through Fiction." Henry James Review 18.3 (1997): 258-64.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "The Age of Innocence: Wharton's 'Portrait of a Gentleman'." Southern Review 12 (1976): 640-58.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. "'All by Myself in the Moonlight': Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence." Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku Kenkyujo Yakuin/Kobe College Studies 41.2 (1994): 1-14.
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