Pilot Lecture: Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York

Overview

Course No. 90128
Get to know Edith Wharton and the New York of her time, where everything glittered, but all was certainly not gold.

Join Dr. Arielle Zibrak, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, to take a deep dive into who Edith Wharton was and how she came to be such a popular and well-regarded novelist. You’ll see the New York of Wharton’s time: a place of extremes between wealth and poverty, success and misfortune, hopeful optimism and bitter realities.

Video Lecture

1. Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York (29 min)
   Tour the scenes and sights of the New York City of Wharton’s time—which functions as a central character in The House of Mirth. Explore Wharton’s relationship to Gilded Age culture as both participant and critic.