Looking through the Opera Glasses: Performance and Artifice in "The Age of Innocence."

Serving as a structural frame for Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence," opera illustrates the duality of the artifice of performance: the one on the stage and the one in the opera box. The artifice of opera allows its participants to express their imagination and passion; however, the artifi...

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Published in:	Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 49 - 62
Main Author:	Skaggs, Carmen Trammell
Format:	Article
Published:	Mosaic Mar2004
Subjects:	Age of Innocence, The (Book : Wharton) Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Opera Performing arts in literature New York (N.Y.) New York (State) United States
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