List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Text of The Age of Innocence
Background and Contexts
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
Letters
To Rutger B. Jewett, January 5, 1920
To Bernard Berenson, December 12, 1920
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, February 17, 1921
To Sinclair Lewis, August 6, 1921
To Mary Cadwalader Jones, April 11, 1927
Candace Waid·[A Biographical Note on Edith
Wharton]
Edith Wharton·A Little Girl's New York
Edith Wharton·From A Backward Glance
[The Background]
Little Girl
R. W. B. Lewis·From Edith Wharton: A Biography
[Entry into Society]
[A Broken Engagement]
[Marriage and Sexual Ignorance]
Sources
LITERARY SOURCES
Honor6 de Balzac·From Contes dr61atiques
Innocence
The Danger of Being Too Innocent
Edith Wharton·The Valley of Childish Things, and
Other Emblems
Edith Wharton·The New Frenchwoman
TIME AND MONEY: ECONOMIC CONTEXTS AND THE SHIFTING
NARRATIVES OF ETHNIC POWER
[The Source for the Beaufort Scandal]
The Panic: Excitement in Wall Street·New York
Times, September 19, 1873
The Financial Crisis: More Failures Yesterday ·
New York Times, September 20, 1873
Panics·The Nation, September 25, 1873
THE BUSINESS OF SOCIETY: CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARY ON
THE NEW YORK ARISTOCRACY
"Secrets of Ball Giving": A Chat with Ward McAllister
How He Came to Be a Famous Ball Organizer
Reminiscences of Cotillion Dinners
Beginning His Experience at Newport
Objects of the Patriarchs Society
Duplicate Invitations Prevented
Society's Limits Narrowing
Famous Dinners of Recent Years
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sherwood·From Manners and
Social Usages
Preface
The Etiquette of Balls
Fashionable Dancing
[On Serving Roman Punch]
[Recipes for Roman Punch]·From The Encyclopedia
of Practical Cookery and Cookery and Housekeeping
Francis W. Crowninshield·From Manners for the
Metropolis: An Entrance Key to the Fantastic
Life of the 400
Mrs. Burton Harrison·The Myth of the Four Hundred
CHANGING MORES IN NEW NEW YORK: THE ROMANCE OF
LEISURE AND THE SPECTER OF DIVORCE
James Maurice Thompson·The Long Bow
Clarence Satterlee·[The Living Waxworks]
Charles Dickens·From The Old Curiosity Shop
John H. Young·The Language of Flowers
Kate Greenaway·From Language of Flowers
Divorce and Marriage in New-York·New York
Tribune, October 7, 1883
Criticism
REVIEWS: AMERICAN
Katharine Perry·Were the Seventies Sinless?
William Lyon Phelps·As Mrs. Wharton Sees Us
Carl Van Doren·An Elder America
Henry Seidel Canby·Our America
R. D. Townsend·The Book Table: Devoted to Books
and Their Makers, Novels Not for a Day
Anonymous·Mrs. Wharton's Novel of Old New York
Vernon L. Parrington, Jr.·Our Literary Aristocrat
REVIEWS: BRITISH
Anonymous·The Age of Innocence
Anonymous·The Innocence of New York
Katherine Mansfield·Family Portraits
Frederick Watson·The Assurance of Art
MODERN CRITICISM
Julia Ehrhardt·"To Read These Pages Is To Live
Again": The Historical Accuracy of The Age
of Innocence
Jennifer Rae Greeson·Wharton's Manuscript Outlines
for The Age of Innocence: Three Versions
Cynthia Griffin Wolff·[The Age of Innocence as a
Bildungsroman]
Elizabeth Ammons·Cool Diana and the Blood-Red
Muse: Edith Wharton on Innocence and Art
Nancy Bentley·[Realism, Relativism, and the
Discipline of Manners]
Anne MacMaster·Wharton, Race, and The Age of
Innocence: Three Historical Contexts
Dale M. Bauer·[Whiteness and the Powers of
Darkness in The Age of Innocence]
Brian T. Edwards·The Well-Built Wall of Culture:
Old New York and Its Harems
Brigitte Peucker·Scorsese's Age of Innocence:
Adaptation and Intermediality
Edith Wharton: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography