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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 275 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2013
  • Kirjastus: Broadview Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1554810175
  • ISBN-13: 9781554810178
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 275 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2013
  • Kirjastus: Broadview Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1554810175
  • ISBN-13: 9781554810178
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This amply annotated edition of Whartons 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, Mrs. Mansteys View. It is accompanied by the editors comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and novellas, Ethan Frome is the one of which Edith Wharton was most proud. Historically viewed as a high society writer or novelist of manners, Wharton is now receiving her due as an astute chronicler and critic of American life who brought literary realism to new levels and helped to usher in a period of modernist innovation.

This Broadview Edition demonstrates that Ethan Frome, a nightmarish saga of thwarted romance, is not an anomaly in Whartons career, but a natural outgrowth of her interest in the interplay of individual and society.

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The Broadview Ethan Frome is that rare edition of a classic that will satisfy everyone. Carol Singleys comprehensive and beautifully-crafted introduction invites readers to consider deeply the themes and contexts of the novel. The collection of reviews, criticism, and contemporary commentary on health, marriage, masculinity, suicide, and other relevant issues will intrigue readers for its own sake and will enrich their understanding of the envelope of circumstance in which Ethan Frome was written and has been read. This is a worthy addition to the Wharton canon. Irene Goldman-Price, editor of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann

Carol Singleys fine edition of Ethan Frome provides a detailed introduction to the novels main themes and contexts, helpful explanatory notes throughout the text, and a useful bibliography for further reading. The range of secondary materials is excellent and highlights various aesthetic concerns, including the novels reception and its relationship to modernist literary technique, as well as its engagement with classic and modern definitions of tragedy. The novels cultural contexts are illuminated by materials focusing on health and fitness; sexuality, marriage, and divorce; suicide; and technological progress and economic issues in New England and the broader U.S. The edition also contains a judicious selection of correspondence revealing Whartons thoughts on issues such as marriage and relationships, illness, and the novels publicity. The edition is a wonderful resource for students, teachers, and researchers. Gary Totten, North Dakota State University

Acknowledgements 7(2)
Introduction 9(22)
Edith Wharton: A Brief Chronology
31(8)
A Note on the Text
39(2)
Ethan Frome
41(96)
Appendix A Writings
137(22)
Edith Wharton
1 Introduction to Ethan Frome (1922)
137(3)
2 From The Writing of Fiction (1925)
140(2)
3 From A Backward Glance (1934)
142(4)
4 "Mrs. Manstey's View" (10 July 1891)
146(13)
Appendix B Correspondence
159(12)
1 Edith Wharton to Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge (20 June [ 1910])
159(2)
2 Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (4 January [ 1911])
161(3)
3 Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (16 October [ 1911])
164(2)
4 Henry James to Edith Wharton (25 October 1911)
166(2)
5 Edith Wharton to Charles Scribner (27 November [ 1911])
168(3)
Appendix C Contemporary Reviews and Commentaries
171(20)
1 From The New York Times (8 October 1911)
171(3)
2 From Outlook (21 October 1911)
174(1)
3 From The Nation (26 October 1911)
175(3)
4 From The Saturday Review (18 November 1911)
178(1)
5 From John Curtis Underwood, "Culture and Edith Wharton" (1914)
179(2)
6 From William Lyon Phelps, "The Advance of the English Novel," The Bookman (July 1916)
181(1)
7 From Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Edith Wharton: A Critical Study (1922)
181(2)
8 From Alfred Kazin, "The Lady and the Tiger," Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1941)
183(4)
9 From Percy Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947)
187(4)
Appendix D Tragedy
191(10)
1 From Aristotle, Poetics (335 BCE)
191(2)
2 From Arthur Miller, "Tragedy and the Common Man" (1949)
193(4)
3 From Richard Sewall, The Vision of Tragedy (1980)
197(4)
Appendix E Health and Fitness
201(12)
1 From Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life" (1902)
201(2)
2 From Samuel McComb, "The Power of Suggestion in Nervous Troubles" (May 1908)
203(3)
3 From Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and "The Economib Problem of Masochism" (1924)
206(2)
4 From George Kennan, "The Problems of Suicide" (June 1908)
208(5)
Appendix F Sex and Marriage
213(14)
1 Junius Browne, "Romantic Marriages" (January 1895)
213(1)
2 From Mrs. P.T. Barnum, "Moths of Modern Marriage" (March 1891)
214(2)
3 From Byron Hall, "A Lesson Conjugal" (1 September 1903)
216(2)
4 From William Lee Howard; Facts for the Married (1912)
218(2)
5 "Separation the Cure for Matrimonial Woe" (16 January 1905)
220(3)
6 From "Felix Adler on Divorce" (26 January 1905)
223(4)
Appendix G New England and the Nation
227(12)
1 "Lenox High School Girl Dashed to her Death," The Berkshire Evehing Eagle (12 March 1904)
227(5)
2 "A Sleeping Giant," The Youth's Companion (18 November 1909)
232(2)
3 From Rollin Lynde Hartt, "The Regeneration of Rural New England," Outlook (3 March 1900)
234(2)
4 From "The Value of Natural Scenery," Outlook (26 September 1908)
236(3)
Appendix H Photographs
239(6)
1 The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
239(1)
2 The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
240(1)
3 Edith Wharton (1910)
241(1)
4 Wharton's Library, The Mount (undated)
242(1)
5 Sledding in Lenox, Massachusetts (1890s)
243(1)
6 Cover of Ethan Frome, the Play (1936)
244(1)
Works Cited and Further Reading 245
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a popular and critically acclaimed American novelist and short story writer. Among her many honours was a 1921 Pulitzer Prize, the first to be awarded to a woman, for her novel The Age of Innocence.

Carol Singley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA. A past president of the Edith Wharton Society, she has published several books on Wharton.