LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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From Retreat to Revelation - A Prismatic Study of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and Summer

Seetha Balakrishnan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton 1862-1937

A Disciple of Henry James

Edith Wharton, the most distinguished woman writer of American fiction before World War II, was the chief disciple of Henry James. A long-time friend of Henry James, Wharton regarded him as a master contemporary novelist, and her work has marked resemblances to his, both in theme and technique. Like James, she considered the novel “as a vehicle for presenting a moral problem involving personalities in a highly civilized background” (Sands 19).

Edith Wharton started writing at the turn of the twentieth century. It was around that time that women writers in America started making a serious contribution to the field of literature. According to John Cournos and Sybil Norton, Edith Wharton began writing fiction “on the advice of Dr. S. WeirMitchell, an author of note himself, to relieve the mental and nervous tension created by her husband’s ailing condition, his care devolving upon her” (170).

Outstanding Feature: Importance of Women Characters

The outstanding feature in Edith Wharton’s novels is the importance that she gives to her women characters.

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Seetha Balakrishnan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Lecturer in English
Presidency College (Affiliated to Bangalore University)
Hebbal, Kempapura
Bangalore 560024
Karnataka, India
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