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Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays

Edith Wharton's <i>The Age of Innocence:</i> New Centenary Essays

The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays

Abstract Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) is the most recent volume focused on Wharton's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Edited by Arielle Zibrak, it brings new critical approaches to Wharton's work and draws connections between the novel's gaze back at the late nineteenth century and our own. Wharton scholars were invited to respond to each of the collection's essays and the authors of the essays, in turn, wrote back to their respondents. The following conversation expands the insights of the original volume and points toward new directions in Wharton scholarship.

The New Edith Wharton Studies

The New Edith Wharton Studies

Editor's Note

This special issue of the Edith Wharton Review marks the centenary of The Age of Innocence. Due to the suspension of work on the issue during the pandemic, we were unable to publish it in 2020 as planned. Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence on June 1, 1921, providing us in 2021 with the opportunity to celebrate this 100th anniversary along with the novel.For their expertise and effort in making this issue possible, I wish to thank the members of the Edith Wharton Review editorial board, and at Penn State University Press, Jessica Karp. Praise is due to Rita Bode and Nir Evron for their stimulating and informative discussions of recent books. The variety of approaches taken by the articles in this issue signals the flourishing state of scholarship on the novel, and I extend my gratitude to our distinguished contributors, listed in the order their work appears: Dame Hermione Lee, University of Oxford; Melanie V. Dawson, College of William &amp; Mary; Françoise Samarcelli, Université Paris-Sorbonne; Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming, and the contributors to her “The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays Roundtable”; Katrin Horn, Universität Bayreuth; and Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach. The history of The Age of Innocence has proven to be very different than the one prophesied by Walter Berry, who after reading it declared “Yes; it's good. But of course no one will ever read it. We are the last people left who can remember New York and Newport as they were then, and nobody else will be interested” (A Backward Glance 411). It became, of course, one of Wharton's best-selling novels, a work which richly portrays the vicissitudes of passion and duty, the passage of time, and genteel emotional violence.

“Bridging Faith and Knowledge through Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”

This paper argues that faith and knowledge are not mutually exclusive spheres of inquiry, but overlapping in a sense that faith is a viaduct of knowledge. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty is the major material in consideration to argue this case.&#x0D; Wittgenstein’s religious inclination is examined in the first section to set some conditions on the possibility of interpretation laid out in this article. So this reading is in no way conclusive about the seminal material being considered. But in the second section, knowledge, belief, doubt and certainty are briefly discussed to ground the notion of religious convictions as hinge beliefs. The third section is an intentional derailment from the exposition of On Certainty in the mode of interpretation being suggested. It is about a personal academic experience wherein it is argued that, if the discussion in the second section is at least plausible, academic thinking needs not to be leaning towards the mutual exclusion of faith and knowledge. It is however premised on the necessity of faith as a hinge belief in the Wittgensteinian sense. It seems then that a religious world-picture driven by faith may not be separated from the one driven by science, which is a secular world-picture.&#x0D; References&#x0D; Printed Materials&#x0D; Clack, Brian Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion. United Kingdom: Macmillian Press Ltd.&#x0D; Labron, Tim. Wittgenstein and Theology. London: T&amp;T Clark, 2009.&#x0D; Malcolm, Norman. Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View? New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.&#x0D; Monk, Ray. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of a Genius. London: Vintage Books, 1991.&#x0D; Moyal-Sharrock, Danièle. Understanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.&#x0D; Phillips, D.Z. “Religion in Wittgenstein’s Mirror.” In Wittgenstein Centenary Essays, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement:28. Ed. A. Phillips Griffiths. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.&#x0D; Rhees, Rush. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections. United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd., 1981.&#x0D; Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Notebooks 1914-1916. Edited by G.H. Von Wright and G.E.M. Anscombe.&#x0D; _______________. On Certainty. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright. New York: Harper &amp; Row Publishers, Inc., 1972.&#x0D; _______________. Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus, Trans. Ogden/Ramsey (London: Kegan Paul, 1922) Side-by-side-by-side edition, version 0.53 (February 5, 2018).&#x0D; E-sources&#x0D; Craig, William Lane. “The Revolution in Anglo-American Philosophy.” https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/apologetics/the-revolution-in-anglo-american-philosophy/ Accessed: December 8, 2018.&#x0D; Reed, Baron. "Certainty." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Winter 2011 Edition. Edward N. Zalta, Ed, URL =&lt;https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/certainty/&gt;. Accessed December 11, 2018.&#x0D; New Oxford American Dictionary, version 2.2.2, 2017.

Announcements: CELJ Distinguished Editor Award Huntington Centennial Essay Prize

Announcements: CELJ Distinguished Editor Award Huntington Centennial Essay Prize

Sots at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament StudyJarickJohn Sots at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study Bloomsbury T&amp;T ClarkLondon, 2017, x, 182, £85.00ISBN 978-0-56767-364-0

Sots at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament StudyJarickJohn <i>Sots at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study</i> Bloomsbury T&amp;T ClarkLondon, 2017, x, 182, £85.00ISBN 978-0-56767-364-0

SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study. Edited by John Jarick

SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study. Edited by John Jarick

Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance ed. by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones

Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance ed. by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones

Book Review: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Society for Old Testament Study: John Jarick (ed.), SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study

Book Review: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Society for Old Testament Study: John Jarick (ed.), <i>SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study</i>

Did He Mean It?

The program note I want to gloss concerns the Symphony in Three Movements, which was composed over the years 1942 to 1945 and first performed, on 24 January 1946, by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under the composer’s baton. In 1963 Stravinsky seemed to have had a change of heart that rendered him willing to admit what he had formerly denied, even if he still needed to cloak the admission in paradox. Is it evidence that (to recall a book of outdated centennial essays) Stravinsky the musician never really meant what Stravinsky the modernist averred? We’ll never know. Meanwhile, we’ll go on performing and interpreting Stravinsky’s music the way not he but we need to hear it. As long as we do that, his work will live.

1. Centennial Review Essay: Communications and World War I (Part One)

The flood has begun. As readers surely know, a host of new books about World War I is appearing thanks to this being the centennial year of the beginning of the so-called “Great War” or the “war to...

Review of 'Flann O’Brien: Centenary Essays' (2011), edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper

Ronan Crowley reviews Flann O’Brien: Centenary Essays, a special issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper to mark Brian O'Nolan's centenary

Synge and his influences: centenary essays from the Synge Summer School

Synge and his influences: centenary essays from the Synge Summer School

About This Issue

] About This Issue P ublishing issues on the anniversaries of significant historical events is integral to our journal’s interpretive thematic framework. The most recent issue dedicated to such an event was our winter 2006 issue on the fortieth anniversary of Dignitatis Humanae, The Declaration on Religious Liberty. This issue on “Pascendi dominici gregis, 1907-2007: Centennial Essays on Responses to the Encyclical on Modernism” features recent scholarship on the American, English, French, and Italian responses to this historical event. Relying upon the wide-ranging expertise of Professor C.J.T. Talar for advice on this issue, I asked him to explore the historical meanings of the encyclical in order to set the stage for the articles analyzing those who were affected by the condemnation of Modernism. Talar’s two articles in this issue underscore his command of the topic and related ideas in French religious thought which are featured in his articles and books published over the past twenty-five years. These essays represent the continuous development of historical theology in the post-Vatican II period. We are very grateful to the contributors for making this such a stimulating issue. Lawrence Barmann is professor emeritus of both Theological Studies and American Studies at St. Louis University. Michael Kerlin is a professor of Philosophy at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. Giacomo Losito is scientific collaborator at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt-on-Main). William L. Portier is the Mary Ann Spearin Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton. C.J.T Talar is professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology in Houston, Texas. Christopher J. Kauffman ...

Accountability for genocide and other gross human rights violations: the need for an integrated and victim-based transitional justice

The Nuremberg tribunal was the expression and the beginning of states' recognition of their duty to prosecute genocide and other gross human rights violations. It was a first step towards fulfillin...

Summerson and Hitchcock: centenary essays on architectural historiography

In this volume, twenty international scholars explore the work of two of the twentieth century's greatest architectural historians: the American Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) and the Englishman Sir John Summerson (1904-1992). Both men undertook architectural training and became key polemical figures in the establishment of Modernism in the 1930s. After the war, and especially in the 1950s, both turned more exclusively to historical research and writing. While their areas of interest overlapped, their approaches greatly differed. The contributors to the book investigate the work and methodologies of Summerson and Hitchcock, from their interests in the Northern European (as opposed to Italian) Renaissance, through their studies of the nineteenth century as a precursor to their own times, to their involvement in contemporary issues of design and conservation. The book enhances our understanding of the influences that shaped these two important figures and of the place of architecture within the social and cultural environment.

A Look Back

Those of us who entered the field of visual impairment and blindness in the 1970s experienced the vision movement--that is, the shift in philosophical focus from saving to sight enhancement. During the first half of the 20th century, children with low vision were encouraged to not use their vision, but to save it. This philosophy was so pervasive that some schools for the blind still have photographic evidence of children with low vision reading braille with cloth over their hands so they could not use their vision to read the dots. In the second half of the century, in contrast, sight enhancement was encouraged, and specific curricula were developed to teach children with low vision how to use their remaining vision. This fundamental change created a host of developments, including the subsequent emphasis on the development of visual skills in children with low vision, introduction of university courses on the topic of low vision, development of an interest group on low vision within our professional organization, growth of entire conferences dedicated to low vision, inclusion of the category of vision therapist for certification, and the increased appearance of manuscripts in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) on the topic of low vision. In this centennial essay, we offer details of the volume of manuscripts published in the 100-year history of JVIB and its predecessors on this single topic, thus illustrating the journal's dedication to the topic of low vision. According to research presented in 2005 by Goodrich and Arditi, in the years 1999 to 2003, JVIB featured more manuscripts on low vision (18%) than any other journal in the field of visual impairment and blindness. (In second place was the American Journal of Ophthalmology, which published 6%.) After poring over 100 years of material for this overview of the literature on low vision, we decided to organize this essay according to the model of the public health continuum of care, which has three phases: prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation and education. We believe this model will not only allow us to capture the broad themes of the literature on low vision, but also reflects our strong philosophical belief that the best low vision service is interdisciplinary. PREVENTION goal of public health practitioners is to prevent disease. Looking through the journal, we found that the information published in the early 1900s provided a fascinating glimpse into the state of health care, specifically eye care, during that time period. For example, two of the leading causes of blindness and visual impairment in the United States in the early 1900s were ophthalmia neonatorum and trachoma. Ophthalmia neonatorum--a form of conjunctivitis caused by untreated venereal disease that is contracted by the unborn infant as he or she traverses the birth canal--was first mentioned in Outlook for the Blind in 1908. second cause, trachoma, was also a type of conjunctivitis. We were somewhat stunned to learn that trachoma was once endemic in North America and Europe. Although trachoma remains the leading cause of blindness in the world today, it is extremely rare in developed countries. However, in 1910 a physician reported on incidences of trachoma in western Pennsylvania to draw attention to its practically ignored ravages among certain classes (Harris, 1910). Dr. Harris wrote: Much has been accomplished by skilled medical and surgical measures, in addition to certain hygienic directions, but we are very far from the desired goal, inasmuch as we have yet failed to discover the exciting cause of the disease or find a remedy that is in a strict sense curative (p. 113). Perhaps in an attempt to raise awareness, the opening of the Autumn 1915 editorial, entitled The Trachoma Problem, was: Why have you given so much space to Trachoma in this issue of the Outlook for the Blind? …

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the ?spirit? of Capitalism (1905): A Centennial Essay

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the ?spirit? of Capitalism (1905): A Centennial Essay

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays (review)

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays. Edited by William J. Thorn, Phillip M. Runkel, and Susan Mountin. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 32.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2001. Pp. 615. $30.00 paperback.) In October, 1997, Catholic Worker scholars and activists met at Marquette University to honor the centenary of Dorothy Day's birth. More than 500 indivictuals attended the international gathering-part conference and part celebration-including first-generation Catholic Workers whose connection to Day and the movement spanned more than sixty years. This thick paperback volume, published in 2001, showcases the research and insights of many conference participants. Capturing a good share of the excitement of the meeting, this long-awaited anthology allows for the expression of wide-ranging viewpoints with little apparent intrusion from the editors. Those who are expecting a purely academic volume: beware! While a number of the papers measure up to the strictest academic standards of professional journals, other contributions were addressed to a non-academic audience. Many of the most lively and original contributions represent the work of thoughtful activists whose writings amply demonstrate engaged creative intelligence. At worst, a few sprawling essays add little toward interpreting issues of significance to the movement. One of the greatest strengths of the volume is the span of viewpoints from Catholic Worker communities throughout the United States and in Canada. Like the work of Patrick Coy, Rosemary Riegle (Troester), and Harry Murray, which it complements, these essays represent some of the geographic, ideological, and theological diversity within the movement in the era after Dorothy Day's death. The anthology of thirty-nine essays is loosely organized into twelve sections, with coverage of CW history; the relation of the movement to the Church; CW nonviolence; Day's social and political thought; the movement's philosophy of work; Day's writings; her spirituality; Peter Maurin's influence; Ammon Hennacy; the movement's early pacifism; ecumenical perspectives; and personal narratives. Readers will find among the most original, valuable, and accessible essays: David O'Brien on the significance of the movement; Mark and Louise Zwick on some of its spiritual and philosophical roots; three especially provocative essays on the movement and the Church by Fred Boehrer,Ann O'Connor and Peter King, and Brian Terrell. …