Ethan Frome (Norton Critical Editions)

by Wharton, Edith; Lauer, Kristin O.; Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

• ISBN13: 9780393966350
• ISBN10: 0393966356
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on the Text	ix
Introduction to the 1922 Edition	xi
The Text of Ethan Frome	1	(74)
Backgrounds and Contexts	75	(36)
``The Writing of Ethan Frome''	77	(1)
Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance	78	(2)
Edith Wharton
[On Ethan Frome's Dramatization]	80	(2)
Edith Wharton
Letters on Ethan Frome (1910-1912)	82	(4)
Edith Wharton to Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge (June 20 [1910])	82	(1)
Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (January 4 [1911])	82	(1)
Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (May 16 [1911])	83	(1)
Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (September 22 [1911])	83	(1)
Edith Wharton to Mary Cadwalader Jones (September 23, 1911)	84	(1)
Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (October 16 [1911])	84	(1)
Edith Wharton to Charles Scribner (November 27 [1911])	85	(1)
Henry James to Edith Wharton (October 25, 1911)	85	(1)
The Berkshire Evening Eagle • [``Fatal Coasting Accident'']	86	(4)
[Edith Wharton and Kate Spencer]	90	(3)
Scott Marshall
[Ethan Frome Biographically]	93	(4)
R. W. B. Lewis
Observations on a Form of Nervous Prostration	97	(2)
E. H. Van Deusen
The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America	99	(6)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
From The Working Girls of Boston	105	(6)
Carroll D. Wright
Criticism	111	(74)
Contemporary Reviews	113	(13)
New York Times Book Review • [``Three Lives in Supreme Torture'']	113	(2)
Outlook • [``Artistic Workmanship'']	115	(1)
The Nation • [``As One Writes of Home'']	116	(3)
The Hartford Daily Courant • [``Not a Study of Life or Character or Locality'']	119	(1)
Saturday Review • [``Things Too Terrible... To Be Told'']	119	(1)
[``Art for Art's Sake'']	120	(1)
Frederic Taber Cooper
[``Inevitability of a Great Greek Tragedy'']	121	(1)
Bookman
Idealized New England	122	(4)
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Modern Criticism	126	(59)
The Morality of Inertia	126	(4)
Lionel Trilling
[The Narrator's Vision]	130	(15)
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
[Ethan Frome as Fairy Tale]	145	(12)
Elizabeth Ammons
[The Spaces of Ethan Frome]	157	(13)
Judith Fryer
Edith Wharton's Art of Ellipsis	170	(5)
Jean Frantz Blackall
From Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame	175	(5)
Lev Raphael
[``A Vision of Unrelenting Infertility'']	180	(5)
Candace Waid
A Chronology	185	(2)
Edith Wharton
Selected Bibliography	187