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Call for submissions: The Edith Wharton Review. The Edith Wharton Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal indexed in the MLA Bibliography. Past and future issues of The Edith Wharton Review will be soon be available from the subscription database EbscoHost, which is widely available through academic libraries. EWS members will continue to receive paper copies of the journal.

The Edith Wharton Review is the official refereed publication of the Edith Wharton Society.  It is published at the Department of English, Kean University, Union, N.J. Manuscripts approximately 10-25 pp. should follow the new 6th ed. MLA style, using endnotes, not footnotes. Submit in triplicate to the co-editor at the address below:

Prof. Linda Costanzo Cahir, Co-editor
EMSE
Willis 105K
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Editor
Professor, Dept of English
CAS 326
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

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Recent Tables of Contents

Fall 2009

Asya, Ferda. "Report on the 2008-2009 Edith Wharton Collection Award of the Edith Wharton Society." Edith Wharton Review 25.2 (Fall 2009): 10.

Hoeller, Hildegard. Rev. of Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism by Jennifer Haytock . Edith Wharton Review 25.2 (Fall 2009): 11-12.

Nettels, Elsa. Rev. of Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction by Judith P. Saunders. Edith Wharton Review 25.2 (Fall 2009): 12-13.

Scott, Jacquelyn. "The 'lift of a broken wing': Darwinian Descent and Selection in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Summer." Edith Wharton Review 25.2 (Fall 2009): 1-9

Singley, Carol. Rev. of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930, ed. Shafquat Towheed. Edith Wharton Review 25.2 (Fall 2009): 14-15.

Spring 2009

 

Patten, Ann L. "The Spectres of Capitalism and Democracy in Edith Wharton's Early Ghost Stories." Edith Wharton Review 25.1 (Spring 2009): 1-8.

Totten, Gary. Rev. of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts by Emily Orlando. Edith Wharton Review 25.1 (Spring 2009): 15.

Wahl, Jenny. "Edith Wharton as Economist: An Economic Interpretation of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 25.1 (Spring 2009): 9-14

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Call for Submissions:

The Edith Wharton Essay Prize

Instituted in the fall of 2005, the Edith Wharton Essay Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton by a beginning scholar. Graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty members who have not held a tenure-track or full-time appointment for more than four years are eligible to submit their work. The winning essay will be published in The Edith Wharton Review, and the writer will receive an award of $250.

All entries will be considered for publication in The Edith Wharton Review as well as for the Edith Wharton Essay Prize. Submissions should be 15-25 pages in length and should follow the new 6 th edition MLA style, using endnotes, not footnotes. Applicants should not identify themselves on the manuscript but should provide a separate cover page that includes their names, academic status, e-mail address, postal addresses, and the notation “The Edith Wharton Essay Prize.”

To submit an essay for the prize, send three copies by April 30, 2010, to either of the editors of The Edith Wharton Review:

Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Editor
Dept of English
CAS 326
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

Prof. Linda Costanzo Cahir, Co-editor
Willis 103B
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

Fall 2008

Amorino, Joseph S. "Reynolds's The Age of Innocence: An Aesthetic of Structure and Stability." Edith Wharton Review 24.2 (Fall 2008): 7-9.

Campbell, Donna. "A Literary Expatriate: Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, and the Politics of a Literary Reputation." Edith Wharton Review 24.2 (Fall 2008): 1-6.

---. Rev. of The Architectural Imagination of Edith Wharton: Gender, Class, and Power in the Progressive Era. Edith Wharton Review 24.2 (Fall 2008): 10-11.

Murray, Margaret. Rev. of Edith Wharton on Film by Parley Ann Boswell. Edith Wharton Review 24.2 (Fall 2008): 9-10.

Spring 2008

EWS Essay Prize Winning Essay: “Perverting Pride and Prejudice: Wharton’s American Alternative to the Novel of Manners: An Essay on The House of Mirth” by Jennie Hann

“From Lily Bart to Amaryllis: Mrs. Porter’s Challenge to Mrs. Wharton” by Pamela Knights;

Book Review:

"Gary Totten’s Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture.” by Shafquat Towheed

Fall 2007

Rahr, Alexandra. "Barbarians at the Table: The Parvenue Dines in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." Edith Wharton Review 23.2 (Fall 2007): 1-8.

Singley, Carol. "Edith Wharton and Susan Minot: A Literary Lineage." Edith Wharton Review 23.2 (Fall 2007): 8-12

Goldman-Price, Irene. Rev. of Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee. Edith Wharton Review 23.2 (Fall 2007): 12-14.

Nettels, Elsa. Rev. of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War by Julie Olin-Ammentorp. Edith Wharton Review 23.2 (Fall 2007): 14-15.

Spring 2007

Foster, Travis. "Ascendant Obtuseness and Aesthetic Perception in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Prize Essay 2006. Edith Wharton Review 23.1 (Spring 2007): 1-8/

Hellman, Caroline. "Chintz Goes to War: Edith Wharton's Revised Designs for Home and Homefront." Edith Wharton Review 23.1 (Spring 2007): 8-13.

Selman, Linda. "The Influence of the Bunner Brothers on Edith Wharton's 'Bunner Sisters.'" Edith Wharton Review 23.1 (Spring 2007):13-18.

Towheed, Shafquat. Rev. of Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception": Darwinian Allegory in Her Major Novels. Edith Wharton Review 23.1 (Spring 2007): 18-19.

Fall 2006

Evans, Anne-Marie. "Shopping for Survival: Conspicuous Consumerism in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life." Edith Wharton Review 22.2 (Fall 2006): 9-15.

Nettels, Elsa. "Wharton and Trollope: The Way We Live Now in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 22.2 (Fall 2006): 6-9.

Rattray, Laura. "The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton." Edith Wharton Review 22.2 (Fall 2006): 1-6.

Spring 2006

Murray, Margaret. "Teaching Edith Wharton: Of Bling and Bart." Edith Wharton Review 22.1 (Spring 2006): 5-8.

Rives, Darcie D. "Haunted by Violence: Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses and Her Gothic Fiction." Edith Wharton Review 22.1 (Spring 2006): 8-15.

Thomas, J. D. "Tribal Culture, Pantoime, and the Communicative Face in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 22.1 (Spring 2006): 1-5.

Fall 2005

McLoughlin, Kate. "Edith Wharton, War Correspondent." Edith Wharton Review 21.2 (Fall 2005): 1-9. (Edith Wharton Essay Prize Winner)

Hall, Susan. "The Death of Love: Sexuality, Secrets, and Settings in Wharton's Summer." Edith Wharton Review 21.2 (Fall 2005): 9-17. (Edith Wharton Essay Prize Runner-Up)

Stansell, Elizabeth. "Lest You Mistake Your Mud Hut for the Parthenon: Echoes of Edith Wharton's 'The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems" In The House of Mirth."Edith Wharton Review 21.2 (Fall 2005):17-23.

 
Editor:  Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Kean University
Co-Editor: Linda Costanzo Cahir, Kean University
Assistant Editor Margaret Murray, Western Connecticut State University
Advisory Board: Annette Zilversmit, Long Island University
Editorial Board:   
Jean Blackall Donna Campbell Kathy Fedorko
Irene Goldman-Price Hildegard Hoeller Betsy Klimasmith
Margaret Murray Elsa Nettels Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Emily Orlando Mary Papke Charlotte Rich
Laura Saltz Carol Singley Frederick Wegener

Editorial Board members from previous years:

Harriet Gold Kenneth Price Sharon Shaloo
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser Alan Price Melissa Pennell
    Edie Thornton