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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
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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 …