English: The Age of Innocence

Duration: 30:32 mins

Watch and learn how writer Edith Wharton resisted societal pressure and created great works of literature.

Duration: 4:06 mins                      Production Year: 2013

Duration: 7:50 mins                Production Year: 2020

Find out about what the society that Edith Wharton set The Age of Innocence in was like.

Visit: History:Gilded Age 

Read: 'How HBO's The Gilded Age reflects wider tensions within the 19th-century New York and American Society', The Conversation.

Watch: 'Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age - What was the Gilded Age?

Duration: 2:06 mins

What is a novel of manners? Click on the images above to find out or the link below.

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• "The Age of Innocence" at a Moment of Increased Appetite for Eating the Rich. article The New Yorker.

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• 'The Age of "The Age of Innocence"  essay The New York Times
• 'The Age of Innocence is a masterclass in sexual tension' article The Guardian

Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence  Trailer.  Duration: 2:23 mins

Read Review: The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s brilliant tragedy of New York society manners, article The Guardian