Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edith Wharton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Age of Innocence
Appendix A: Wharton's Outlines
Appendix B: Wharton's Correspondence About The Age of Innocence
Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews
- Edmund Wilson, Edith Wharton (1921)
- Vernon L. Parrington, Our Literary Aristocrat (1921)
- Henry Seidel Canby, Our America (1920)
- Carl Van Doren, An Elder America (1920)
- William Lyon Phelps, As Mrs.Wharton Sees Us (1920)
- Times Literary Supplement, The Age of Innocence (1920)
- Gilbert Seldes, The Last Stand (1921)
Appendix D: From A Little Girl's New York
Appendix E: Wharton and Others on the Status of Women
- Theodore Roosevelt, Women's Rights; and the Duties of Both Men and Women (1912)
- Carrie Chapman Catt, Why the Federal Amendment? (1917)
- Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love (1911)
- Edith Wharton, The New Frenchwoman (1919)
- Edith Wharton, In Fez (1920)
Appendix F: Ethnographic Discourse, Victorian to Modern
- Edward B.Tylor, from Primitive Culture (1871)
- John F. McLennan, from Primitive Marriage (1865)
- Sir James George Frazer, Taboo (1888)
- Sir James George Frazer, Our Debt to the Savage (1911)
- Edward Westermarck, from The History of Human Marriage (1903)
- Edward Westermarck, from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (1906)
- Franz Boas, The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology (1896)
- Elsie Clews Parsons, from Fear and Conventionality (1914)
- Bronislaw Malinowski, from Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)
- Ruth Benedict, The Science of Custom (1934)
Appendix G: Wharton on Modernity and Tradition
- Notebook entry (c. 1918-1923)
- From A Backward Glance (1934)
- From Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)
- From French Ways and Their Meaning (1919)
- From In Morocco (1920)
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