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Lecture on “Edith Wharton on Exile, Expatriation, and Exceptionality” by Professor Cynthia Davis

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The lecture on “Edith Wharton on Exile, Expatriation, and Exceptionality” will cover some of Professor Cynthia Davis most recent research on Edith Wharton, a U.S.-American writer of the Gilded Age who knew the New York City upper class well and presented representatives in her fiction. Her novels Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth were immediate bestsellers and have remained so until today. In her talk, Professor Davis will address Wharton’s “argument with America” and her preference for Europe, which strengthened when she settled permanently in France in the 1900s.