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Tables of Contents for Ethan Frome
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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