Essays on The Age of Innocence
« Modern Fiction really began when the ‘action’ of the novel was transferred from the street to the soul. » — Edith Wharton Wharton’s quote is an excellent definition of modern literature, it shifts the emphasis from outer reality to reality as something lived and experienced as having repercussions on the characters in life. That’s...
The “New Woman” as a term was first coined by the writer Sarah Grand in 1894. She drew attention to the double standards found inherently in Victorian marriages which allowed men to have relationships outside of the marriage institution, but excluded women to do so as they were expected to be sexually and morally virtuous....
To begin, Archer and Frome are fundamentally the same as. In The Age of Innocence, Archer urged Olenska to remain in New York and not return to her better half. In spite of the fact that Archer was locked in to be hitched he needed her to himself. He did all that he could to...
