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Dreaming with Edith Wharton
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“Dreaming with Edith Wharton” recounts the deep emotional connection that Professor Elif S. Armbruster feels with Edith Wharton, a feeling that is solidified by her frequent dreams of and with the author. In this reflective piece, Armbruster shares one particular dream in which she is driving with Wharton around western Massachusetts, in Wharton’s new car, purchased with the proceeds from her recent bestselling novel, The House of Mirth. The two share an uncanny bond with each other as they connect over Wharton’s news of the novel’s success. Armbruster then explores how the reading of The Age of Innocence in her early twenties changed her life, by steering her away from a predictable and conformist life to one based on love and simplicity.
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Abstract
“Dreaming with Edith Wharton” recounts the deep emotional connection that Professor Elif S.
Armbruster feels with Edith Wharton, a feeling that is solidified by her frequent dreams of and with the author.
In this reflective piece, Armbruster shares one particular dream in which she is driving with Wharton around western Massachusetts, in Wharton’s new car, purchased with the proceeds from her recent bestselling novel, The House of Mirth.
The two share an uncanny bond with each other as they connect over Wharton’s news of the novel’s success.
Armbruster then explores how the reading of The Age of Innocence in her early twenties changed her life, by steering her away from a predictable and conformist life to one based on love and simplicity.
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