The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

Resources:

• Biographical Information about Edith Wharton from The Edith Wharton Society

• Chronology of Wharton's Life and Publications from The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

• The Mount: Edith Wharton's Home

• The Edith Wharton Society

• Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence from The Criterion Collection

• PODCASTS:

  • "In Our Time: Edith Wharton" from BBC

  • A radio show about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence featuring Louis Auchincloss, Jay Cocks, Stephanie Copeland, David Ives, Alfred Molina, P. J. O'Rourke, Elizabeth Spencer, and Amy Tan from National Endowment of the Arts

  • "Episode 153: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton" from Overdue

  • "Episode 27: Edith Wharton" from American Writers Museum

  • "Episode 16: The Age of Innocence" from Death by Adaptation Podcast

Online Articles:

• • Reading Group articles by Sam Jordison for The Guardian: September 1, 2020; September 8, 2020; September 15, 2020; September 22, 2020

  • "The Age of Awesome" by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic

  • "'The Age of Innocence' at a Moment of Increased Appetite for Eating the Rich" by Hillary Kelly for The New Yorker

  • "The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’" by Elif Batuman for The New York Times

  • "Dearest Edith: The inner and outer voyages of Edith Wharton" by Janet Flanner for The New Yorker

  • "A Rooting Interest: Edith Wharton and the problem of sympathy" by Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker

  • "What Do We Do with The Age of Innocence in 2020?" by Sarah Blackwood for LitHub

Critical Articles: 

• "Beyond Domestic Grounds: Edith Wharton's Shakespearean Glance in The Age of Innocence" - Lina L. Geriguis

• "Complicity in The Age of Innocence" - Sarah Kozloff

• "The Cult of Passion in The Age of Innocence" - Lloyd M. Daigrepont

• "Forms of Disembodiment: The Social Subject in The Age of Innocence" - Pamela Knights

• "Janey Archer's Myopia and The Age of Innocence" - Lindsay DiGianvittorio and Judith P. Saunders

• "Reading The Age of Innocence in France" - Virginia Ricard

• "Realism, Irony and Morality in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence" - Nir Evron