The notes clarify the "anthropological exactitude" Wharton used to describe the snobbery of the 1870s wealthy elite.
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Revisiting Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence . Set in the 1870s Gilded Age, it’s a masterclass in the "effusion-less" violence of high society. Newland Archer is caught between the "safe" innocence of May Welland and the scandalous, worldly freedom of Countess Ellen Olenska. The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
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