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Edith Wharton: A Bibliography
Edith Wharton: A Bibliography
Virginia Ricard
1
A rapid perusal of the following critical bibliography reveals the paucity of work
examining Edith Wharton’s art of the short story as a whole. Most of the articles listed
below focus on one or two stories. Barbara White’s Edith Wharton: A Study of the Short
Fiction, published in 1991, is still the only book-length study devoted to the subject.
Certain more general studies of Wharton’s work—books with a chapter on Wharton and
the short story, or books that focus on problems and themes apposite to the articles in
this special issue—have also been included.
2
Collections or selections of Wharton’s stories have not been included. Wherever possible,
the articles in this issue refer to the Library of America edition of the Collected Stories,
volumes 1 and 2, edited by Maureen Howard (2001). When discussing stories that were
not included in the Library of America collection, authors refer either to R.W.B. Lewis’s
Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1968), to his Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
(1991), or to Anita Brookner’s two volumes, The Stories of Edith Wharton (1988-1989). Over
the past twenty years, a number of selections have grouped Wharton’s stories
thematically. Three major themes emerge: New England (e.g. Barbara A. White’s
selection, Wharton’s New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome, Hanover: UP of New
England 1995); New York (e.g. Roxana Robinson’s The New York Stories of Edith Wharton.
New York: NYRB Classics, 2007); and, above all, ghosts (e.g. The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of
Terror and the Supernatural, and The Demanding Dead: More Stories of Terror and the
Supernatural, London: Peter Owen, 1996 and 2007; To Be Read by Candlelight: Two Tales of
Suspense, West Huntspill: Parsimony, 2000; The Triumph of Night and Other Tales, North
Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2008; or, in France, Kerfol et autres histoires de fantômes, Paris: Le
Livre de poche, 2011). Other selections reflect different concerns (e.g. Marilyn French’s
Roman Fever and Other Stories, London: Virago, 1985; Mary Gordon’s Ethan Frome and Other
Short Fiction by Edith Wharton, New York: Bantam, 1987; Candace Waid’s ‘The Muse’s
Tragedy,’ and Other Stories, London: Penguin, 1992; Linda Wagner-Martin’s Portable Edith
Wharton, New York: Penguin Books, 2003; Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s Roman Fever and Other
Stories by Edith Wharton, New York: Collier Books, 1993; or the Dover Edith Wharton, Short
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Stories, New York: Dover, 1994). A study of the principles of selection and rejection in
these collections and anthologies (from, say, William Dean Howells’ choice of “The
Mission of Jane” for Great Modern American Stories, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1921,
through Wayne Andrews’ The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton, New York: Scribner, 1958,
to the present day) might serve as a history of the fluctuating reputation of Wharton’s
short fiction.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Andrews, Wayne. “Introduction.” The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner, 1958.
vii-xxvii.
Balestra, Gianfranca. “‘For the Use of the Magazine Morons’: Edith Wharton Rewrites the Tale of
the Fantastic.” Studies in Short Fiction 33. 1 (1996): 13-24.
Banta, Martha. “The Ghostly Gothic of Wharton’s Everyday World.” American Literary Realism 27:1
(1994): 1-10.
Bardolph, Megan J. “‘That Strange Something Undreamt:’ Genre and Meta-Fiction in Edith
Wharton’s ‘the Lady’s Maid’s Bell.’” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 9.1 (2008): 137-146.
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681-693.
Beer, Janet. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction. New
York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
--- and Avril Horner. Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman. London: Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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Gentile, Kathy Justice. “Supernatural Transmissions: Turn-of-the-Century Ghosts in American
Women’s Fiction: Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman.” Gothic Fiction: The British and American
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Review 21:1 (2005): 18-23.
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Goldsmith, Meredith. “A ‘Ghostly Cortege’ of ‘Imaginary Guests’: Ghosts of Old New York in ‘After
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Rich, Charlotte. “Fictions of Colonial Anxiety: Edith Wharton’s ‘The Seed of the Faith’ and ‘A
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AUTHORS
VIRGINIA RICARD
Virginia Ricard is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Bordeaux. She has
published a number of articles in English and French about Jewish American authors who have
written about the voyage from Europe to America—including Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Ludwig
Lewisohn, Henry Roth, and Saul Bellow. In 2008 she turned her attention to an author who made
the opposite journey, publishing an article about Wharton’s Italian stories, “Legendary Spells:
Edith Wharton's Italy”. She is currently preparing a book on Edith Wharton and France.
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