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From: Literary Imagination[(essay date fall 2000) In the following essay, Killoran refutes Lionel Trilling's assessment of Ethan Frome as a "dead book," contending that the character of Zeena is the moral center of the book.] In 1956 the critic...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 84. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Short FictionThe Greater Inclination 1899Crucial Instances 1901The Descent of Man and Other Stories 1904The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories 1908Tales of Men and Ghosts 1910Ethan Frome...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Edith Wharton was a versatile as well as a prolific writer. She published over forty books, including some twenty novels, ten collections of short stories, books of verse, a pioneer work in interior design (with Ogden...
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From: Explicator[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Sweeney views Deacon Hibbens in "Bewitched" as a carrier of syphilis whose disease accentuates the moral and physical malaise of the other characters.] Perhaps more...
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From: Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Travis studies how Ethan Frome offered a dramatic departure from the sentimental novels of Wharton's era with its frank depiction of emotional pain.] The last twenty years...
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From: The BookmanAt this moment Edith Wharton stands by common consent at the head of all living American women who write books; indeed there are many who say she is our foremost novelist. From this decision, handed down constantly in...
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From: The Saturday Review[In the following excerpt, the critic presents an unfavorable review of Ethan Frome, maintaining that the novel is flawed by its ending.] [Ethan Frome] is a novel in that it unfolds completely to our view the lives of...
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From: American Transcendental Quarterly n.s[(essay date December 2003) In the following essay, Elbert evaluates themes of latent homosexuality, thwarted male desire, and aberrant sexual behavior in "Bewitched" and in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand."] In A...
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From: ANQ[(essay date fall 2006) In the following essay, Thompson points out textual clues that suggest that Wharton may have modeled Sara Clayburn in "All Souls'" after the Old Testament matriarch Sarah.] Like her many other...
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From: The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Killoran offers a review of how the initially strong critical dismissal of Ethan Frome has affected the novel's critical reputation.] No work could be less like The House of...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Whitehead considers the elements of modernism in Wharton’s short fiction, including unreliable narrators, epiphanies, and abrupt, ambiguous gaps in narration.] Critical...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)Edith Wharton's relation to popular traditions has been both over- and under-played. On the one hand her reputation has suffered in the usual way of the woman writer from the identification of her work with the romantic...
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From: Ethan Frome and Summer: Complete Texts with Introduction, Historical Contexts, and Critical Essays[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Scharnhorst provides an alternative interpretation of the character of Mattie Silver as a conniving temptress.] Read through a critical lens that focuses on the ambiguous...
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From: The Nation[In the following essay, the critic offers a favorable review of Ethan Frome, praising the plot, characterization, and structure of the novel.] More than ten years ago Mrs. Wharton published a short story called “The...
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From: Pedagogy[(essay date winter 2008) In the following essay, Totten questions the low level of critical interest in Wharton's short stories as compared to her novels and explores the effect of the capitalist marketplace on the...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen the seasonal "visitor" Edith Wharton took as her subject the rural New Englander, she was aggressively criticized. Although born to the manor, the aristocratic fiction-writer fought back. She pointed to her...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe publication of R. W. B. Lewis's biography in 1975 and the access to Edith Wharton's letters and papers have shifted scholarly attention during the last two decades away from the function of her work as social comedy...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe links between Stella Gibbons' 'Cold Comfort Farm' and Edith Wharton's 'Ethan Frome' have gone unnoticed because Wharton's novel is a tragedy while Gibbons wrote a parody of early 20th century earthy, melodramatic...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the stories collected as How Hindsight Met Provincialatis (1898), Louise Clarkson hit on the device of contrasting village life and characters in a Southern town she calls Provincialatis with life and characters in a...
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From:The Maine Review (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTom has just put the finishing touches on the room in the back ell, trimming the inside of the north-facing window that overlooks Mt. Wachusett now that the leaves have fallen. He put a rounded edge on the stool, set...