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From: Ethan Frome[Wharton discusses her technique in the construction of Ethan Frome.] The problem before me [in writing Ethan Frome], as I saw in the first flash, was this: I had to deal with a subject of which the dramatic climax, or...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5994)On February 8, 1918, in a series called "France and Its Allies at War: The Witnesses Speak", Edith Wharton gave a lecture in French to an audience of about 400. Why had the United States entered the war with such...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBy subjecting the words in the title to a closer scrutiny and examining the process of doubling in the story's plot, this essay explores Edith Wharton's interest in the relation between art and life in the modern world....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 79, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedEdith Wharton's first successful novel, The House of Mirth, was published in 1905. Many of her stories portray her own upper-crust New York experiences and reveal the conflicts and misbehavior underlying polite society....
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNo element of Edith Wharton's novel Summer (1917) has received more critical attention than the marriage between the book's young, pregnant protagonist Charity Royall and her much older guardian/foster father lawyer...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAt the conclusion of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, few options remain for the novel's heroine Lily Bart. Forced out of the upper echelons of Old New York by false accusations of sexual impropriety, Lily...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCritic Andrew Levy points out the importance of the indoors for Wharton: "Indoor metaphors were a leitmotif in her letters, essays, and fiction, and her books on garden architecture and home decor were among her most...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5856)On June 1, 1904, the British publisher John Murray wrote to his rival, Frederick Macmillan, to complain of a work recently published by Macmillan which shared a title with an existing John Murray publication. The work in...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe diary of the Abbe Mugnier, a curate in Paris and a close friend of Edith Wharton, includes passages recounting the lifestyle of the novelist while in the Faubourg Saint-German section of the city. He made his...
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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:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedArguing that the controversy over reservation gambling reflects unresolved tensions involving Indian relations and the social role of gambling in American culture, this essay analyzes gambling in two...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the serial publication of The House of Mirth (1905), Edith Wharton received two letters regarding the novel's reference to Orangeine, a headache cure that was offered Lily Bart by a fellow worker during her brief...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs the child of an emblematic eighteenth-century revolution, a one-time superpower proprietor of a global commercial empire, and a notoriously monolingual nation-state that considers itself both apart from and the...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA clenched fist banged on a table, a gnashed pair of eyeglasses, and an irresistible summons to political action: like the grin of the Cheshire Cat or the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg, Theodore Roosevelt suddenly appears...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her 1917 novel Summer, (1) Edith Wharton weaves the dark tale of twenty-one-year-old Charity Royall, whose ill-fated relationship with Lucius Harney, a young urban architect, culminates in one of the most shocking...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
An economy of beauty: the beauty system in Edith Wharton's "The Looking Glass" and "Permanent Wave."
The fiction of Edith Wharton explores the relationship between women and beauty and the ways in which this beauty influences their role in a given society. A study of the women in 'Permanent Wave' and 'The Looking Glass'... -
From:The New York Times Book ReviewNot long ago, during an Amtrak ride, I met a college student who told me he was a fiction writer. I asked him what he'd been writing and reading, and he said that he was writing a novel about time travel, and that he...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWoman author Edith Wharton's book 'The House of Mirth' clearly depicts New York, NY's turn-of-the-century leisure class society figuratively and literally as a consuming society. Critics have noted that the nation's...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEdith Wharton's 1911 short story "Xingu" in which no male appears, illustrates Lacan's theory of the phallus as a linguistic function that can be possessed by either gender. Lacan argues that the phallus is the power to...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNon-traditional critical readings begun in 1953 freed Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' from the view that it is antithetical to the naturalist novels of her day. However, this reading at present has to be modified....