How Long to Read Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age

How Long Does it Take to Read Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age by Melanie V. Dawson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Providing a counterpoint to readings of modern American culture that focus on the cult of youth, Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age interrogates early twentieth-century literature’s obsessions with aging past early youth. Exploring the ways in which the aging process was understood as generating unequal privileges and as inciting intergenerational contests, this study situates constructions of age at the center of modern narrative conflicts. Dawson examines how representations of aging connect the work of Edith Wharton to writings by a number of modern authors, including Willa Cather, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Floyd Dell, Eugene O’Neill, and Gertrude Atherton. For these writers, age-based ideologies filter through narratives of mourning for youth lost in the Great War, the trauma connected to personal change, the contested self-determination of the aged, the perceived problem of middle-aged sexuality, fantasies of rejuvenation, and persistent patterns of patriarchal authority. The work of these writers shows that as the generational ascendancy of some groups was imagined to operate in tandem with disempowerment of others, the charged dynamics of age gave rise to contests about property and authority. Constructions of age-based values also reinforced gender norms, producing questions about personal value that were directed toward women of all ages. By interpreting Edith Wharton’s and her contemporaries’ works in relation to age-based anxieties, Dawson sets Wharton’s work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture.

How long is Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age?

Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age by Melanie V. Dawson is 379 pages long, and a total of 98,161 words.

This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age aloud.

What Reading Level is Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age?

Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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