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The Age of Innocence
''The Age of Innocence'' is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the ''Pictorial Review'' magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.〔Nelson, Randy F. ''The Almanac of American Letters''. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 9. ISBN 0-86576-008-X〕 The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so-called Gilded Age.
==Synopsis==
''The Age of Innocence'' centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an apology for her earlier novel, ''The House of Mirth'', which was more brutal and critical. The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived, and the social tragedy of its plot. Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end of World War I.
The title is an ironic comment on the polished outward manners of New York society when compared to its inward machinations. It is believed to have been drawn from the popular 1785 painting ''A Little Girl'' by Sir Joshua Reynolds that later became known as ''The Age of Innocence'' and was widely reproduced as the commercial face of childhood in the later half of the 18th century.〔Postle, Martin. (2005) "''The Age of Innocence''" Child Portraiture in Georgian Art and Society", in ''Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence''. Bath: Holburne Museum of Art, pp. 7–8. ISBN 0903679094〕
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