Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age written by Melanie Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on the works of Edith Wharton and her contemporaries, Melanie Dawson discusses representations of modern American identities past early youth in twentieth-century literature. Dawson sets Wharton's work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture"--