... At the end of The Age of Innocence, Newland Archer looks back on the technological and social changes that have transformed New York from a provincial outpost of the 1870s to the internationally networked metropolis it has become by 1902. Having returned from a celebration honoring...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like Gus Trenor, a ‘‘carnivorous’’ hypermasculine character that provides the novel’s counterpoint...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate the new woman. Regrettably, in this context, Dudley does not consider the role of a charac- ter like...

... novels The House of Mirth and Age of Innocence, Dudley explores how ‘‘the spectacle of female competition provides entertainment for male spectators’’ (128–29); he uses this approach to characterize Selden and Newland Archer as ‘‘proto- typical neurasthenic men’’ (131) who help Wharton delineate...

...” (DH, 19).8 In The Age of Innocence, the primary proponent of privacy, Newland Archer, in fact repeatedly suffers a sense of self-obliteration when he is isolated from the members of his tribe. When Julius Beaufort interrupts Archer and Ellen during their tryst at the Patroon house...

.... Press . Murphy James . 1986 . Introduction to Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian: Translation and Text of Peter Ramus’s Rhetoricae Distinctiones in Quintilianum, translated by Newlands Carole , 1 – 76 . Dekalb : Northern Illinois Univ. Press . Neuman Meredith . 2013...