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Edith Wharton's Dream of Incest: Ethan Frome.

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From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19980101
Author:Asya, Ferda

The publication of R. W. B. Lewis's biography in 1975 and the access to Edith Wharton's letters and papers have shifted scholarly attention during the last two decades away from the function of her work as social comedy or history to its revelation of her intimate life and emotions. The first level of this investigation revealed the parental restraints, the pressures of social position, and the power of conventions as they shaped her development as a person and an author. Critics have penetrated the reticence and euphemisms of her autobiographical writing to discover how the ...

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