Ethan Frome (Norton Critical Editions)

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

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

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