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From:Novels for Students (Vol. 20. )Edith Wharton's novel, Summer, is a classic coming-of-age story about a young woman. This type of story, called a bildungsroman (which translates from the German as "novel of formation"), generally contains a hero or...
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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: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date autumn 2002) In the following essay, Emmert investigates the parallel between the constraints of the short story form and the constrictive social forces against which Wharton's female characters struggle.]...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEdith Wharton's final, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, published posthumously in 1938, charts the great excitement of its eponymous characters' initial journey to England and examines what happens when the...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her posthumously published essay "A Little Girl's NewYork" (1937), Edith Wharton refers to her mother, Lucretia Jones, as "a born 'shopper'" (361). The conservatory of the family's Twenty-Third-Street New York home...
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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: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedenkind, Moussorgsky, Cézanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian Futurists, Various Latter-Day Poets, Painters, Composers: and Dramatists[In his article “Three Disagreeable Girls,” Huneker examined Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, George Moore's Mildred Lawson, and Wharton's Undine Spragg, relating them to the New Women of his era. Of the three, Huneker views...
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From: American Literature[(essay date June 1998) In the following essay, Moddelmog examines Wharton's narrative strategy of demonstrating the difficulties inherent in portraying female subjectivity by distancing herself, her other characters,...
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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: The Quarterly ReviewMrs. Wharton's books,from the earliest to the latest, [The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome] are more than a collection of penetrating and finely finished studies, they are linked episodes in one...
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From:Novels for Students (Vol. 20. )According to Marilyn French in her introduction to Wharton's novel, Summer, "Wharton's main theme, her deepest concern, was the emotional/moral life, especially in the area of sexuality." Wharton created a story of a...
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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: Connecticut Review[(essay date summer 1989) In the following essay, Barnett posits that in The House of Mirth society functions as a character rather than simply a setting against which the story is told.] Edith Wharton's novels, like...
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From: The Midwest Quarterly[In the following excerpt, Plante traces early critical reception of Wharton's stories and defends the author against literary detractors.] Edith Wharton's chief concern in “The Recovery” as well as in other stories is...
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From: Edith Wharton: A Critical InterpretationAlthough Walter Berry prophesied that nobody else except themselves would be interested in the New York of her childhood, The Age of Innocence, 1920, was serialized in The Pictorial Review and was, almost inevitably,...
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From: Twentieth Century LiteratureLouis Auchincloss, the prolific novelist and short-story writer, has always been a reliable guide to Edith Wharton, both the writer and the person. His admirable biography, Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time (1971), is...
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From: Ethan Frome[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, which was originally published in 1987, Kazin provides a brief biographical sketch of Wharton and investigates themes of class and morality in Ethan Frome.] The story of poor...
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From: Studies in the Novel[In the following essay, the critic describes the three story lines Wharton considered for The Age of Innocence and discusses the significance of the structure and perspective she eventually selected for the novel's...
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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date autumn 1994) In the following essay, Campbell maintains that in Edith Wharton's "Mrs. Manstey's View" and Bunner Sisters the author "interfuses the city landscapes of naturalism with the potent iconography...
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From: Edith Wharton Review[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Dodson categorizes Ethan Frome as a work of modern tragedy.] In the 1932 Colophon article, "The Writing of Ethan Frome," Edith Wharton called her novella a "tragedy of...