Commodity Fetishism in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence

Item Fetishism of Edith Wharton The product fetishism of the "insensitive period" is a term coined by Karl Marx in the 1867 economic paper "capital". It requires two words of a historical economic trend and a historical religious tendency and combines them to form an important term to explain the economy after the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist economy . In particular, this term is used to describe the application of special authorities and ideas to products that do not have such intrinsic value.

The era of Innocence was written in 1920 and is generally considered Edith Wharton's most successful work. In the "era of Innocence", Wharton told in the hero of Newland Archer at this story point of view, focusing on how he deals with self-positioning, struggle of love and marriage. However, the author also gathered the reader's attention to the myriad stories of the two heroines, Alan Orenzka, May and Welland. Many studies from the perspective of feminist point of literary scholars, view Feminist point of study of Edith Wharton, this article is that Allen and Mei have major concern in Wharton's story, female characters are It is described as a victim of the tragedy of life And the conspirators who decide their destiny. Ambivalence of women's problems can be seen in novels

Analysis of social custom Newland Archer, first: important discussion on different evaluations of Edith Wharton's "Innocence era," novels, analysts have two main questions about the hero of the novel In contrast to confrontation of personal desires, "fair" "innocent", "virgin" as opposed to 1 second, "dark", "experience", "prostitute" Ellen Olenska, It seems to be novel In the 1970s and 1980s I created a series of binary files of "New" and "Old" female stereotypes "Moon Newland.2", which are interested in Wharton, and the feminist scholars provide reading more and more The new way of innocence changed the understanding of Wharton's work and focused on how Wharton built feminist social realism. Stories However, they often talk about the expression of her female character and how these figures reveal the overwhelming social order of women.

Explanation of new women's contradiction: Read Edith Wharton as an innocent era of Dialogue novel