The Resource Wharton's New England : seven stories and Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton ; edited by Barbara A. White
Wharton's New England : seven stories and Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton ; edited by Barbara A. White
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- Summary
- Although Edith Wharton is usually identified with the "old New York" of such masterworks as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she spent ten years living and writing in New England, a setting that appears in two novels, a novella, and fully a quarter of her short stories. In these works Wharton turns from portraying the monied and the mannered to probing inscrutable psyches and souls. The New England of these tales - which range from light comedy to horror - becomes a metaphor for fierce poverty, cultural barrenness, and an oppressive Puritan heritage that both fascinated and repelled Wharton. Thus the frigid, engulfing winter of Starkfield buries Ethan Frome in a living death. That sense of moral and emotional confinement also appears in "The Angel at the Grave," as a young woman senses she has been "walled alive into a tomb hung with the effigies of dead ideas." In "The Lamp of Psyche," a visit to Boston relatives sheds new light on a woman's marriage; "Xingu" gently satirizes the snobbery of small-town "huntresses of erudition"; "Bewitched" and "All Souls" explore the theme of witchcraft. Barbara A. White's insightful introduction suggests that in these stories Wharton "seems to have projected onto New England aspects of herself that she most feared: repression, coldness, inarticulateness, mental starvation, and even lack of high culture."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxx, 254 pages
- Contents
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- The lamp of Psyche
- The angel at the grave
- The pretext
- Xingu
- Ethan Frome
- The triumph of night
- Bewitched
- All souls'
- Isbn
- 9780874517156
- Label
- Wharton's New England : seven stories and Ethan Frome
- Title
- Wharton's New England
- Title remainder
- seven stories and Ethan Frome
- Statement of responsibility
- Edith Wharton ; edited by Barbara A. White
- Title variation
- New England
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Although Edith Wharton is usually identified with the "old New York" of such masterworks as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she spent ten years living and writing in New England, a setting that appears in two novels, a novella, and fully a quarter of her short stories. In these works Wharton turns from portraying the monied and the mannered to probing inscrutable psyches and souls. The New England of these tales - which range from light comedy to horror - becomes a metaphor for fierce poverty, cultural barrenness, and an oppressive Puritan heritage that both fascinated and repelled Wharton. Thus the frigid, engulfing winter of Starkfield buries Ethan Frome in a living death. That sense of moral and emotional confinement also appears in "The Angel at the Grave," as a young woman senses she has been "walled alive into a tomb hung with the effigies of dead ideas." In "The Lamp of Psyche," a visit to Boston relatives sheds new light on a woman's marriage; "Xingu" gently satirizes the snobbery of small-town "huntresses of erudition"; "Bewitched" and "All Souls" explore the theme of witchcraft. Barbara A. White's insightful introduction suggests that in these stories Wharton "seems to have projected onto New England aspects of herself that she most feared: repression, coldness, inarticulateness, mental starvation, and even lack of high culture."
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- Committed to retain
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1862-1937
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wharton, Edith
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3545.H16
- LC item number
- A6 1995
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1942-
- 1862-1937
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- White, Barbara A.
- Wharton, Edith
- Series statement
- Hardscrabble books
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- New England
- Manners and customs
- New England
- Label
- Wharton's New England : seven stories and Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton ; edited by Barbara A. White
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The lamp of Psyche
- The angel at the grave
- The pretext
- Xingu
- Ethan Frome
- The triumph of night
- Bewitched
- All souls'
- Control code
- 31514522
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxx, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9780874517156
- Lccn
- 94042882
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)31514522
- Label
- Wharton's New England : seven stories and Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton ; edited by Barbara A. White
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The lamp of Psyche
- The angel at the grave
- The pretext
- Xingu
- Ethan Frome
- The triumph of night
- Bewitched
- All souls'
- Control code
- 31514522
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxx, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9780874517156
- Lccn
- 94042882
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)31514522
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