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After The Age Of Innocence: Reclaiming Edith Wharton's Satirist Status, Jeffrey Smith Daugherty
After The Age Of Innocence: Reclaiming Edith Wharton's Satirist Status, Jeffrey Smith Daugherty
Senior Projects Spring 2018
In the decades following her death, Edith Wharton has been called many things as critical reception of her work ebbed and flowed: she has been labeled an elitist out of touch with the common man; an expat who fell out of touch with her American roots; a sentimentalist romanticizing the wealthy and conservative society she was born into. These assessments vary from somewhat accurate to entirely reductive. Wharton may not have been able to accurately depict rural poverty in “Ethan Frome” due to her affluent urban upbringing, but she could still capture the desperate ennui of a life lived without …
Into The Parlor: The Persona Of Mark Twain As Architect And Satirist Of The Genteel Tradition, Morgan Ariel Oppenheimer
Into The Parlor: The Persona Of Mark Twain As Architect And Satirist Of The Genteel Tradition, Morgan Ariel Oppenheimer
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College