{"title":"Re-forming Manon: A New History of Edith Wharton’s 1901 Play, Manon Lescaut","authors":"Mary Chinery","doi":"10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.35.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.35.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Edith Wharton’s unpublished Manon Lescaut, A Play in Five Acts, has been overlooked as a significant work in Wharton’s early career. Reduced to the term “adaptation,” which diminishes its importance, Wharton, in fact, revised Abbé Prévost’s treatment of the fallen woman stereotype as she explored literary and dramatic form. New materials from the Paul Kester Papers at the New York Public Library, period newspaper articles, letters from Walter Berry to Wharton, and a second copy of the manuscript itself offer a new history of this drama. Composed in 1900, the play almost made it to the New York stage starring Julia Marlowe after the actress Marie Tempest withdrew. But a fall 1900 dispute with Marlowe’s manager, C. B. Dillingham, regarding Manon’s moral character and the length of the play resulted in Wharton’s defense of her creative choices in three letters and five pages of Notes. Additionally, letters by Walter Berry to Wharton discuss the possibility of replacing Marlowe with Olga Nethersole, the actress who was indicted on indecency charges for her performance in Clyde Fitch’s Sapho. The context of Wharton’s Manon Lescaut shows a playwright in charge of her craft, navigating the complicated theatrical world, and defending her creative vision.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"47 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82970167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Because He's Not Here\": Edith Wharton's Study in the Afterlife, Ghosts, and the Art of Belief","authors":"Yuki Miyazawa","doi":"10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.34.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.34.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In her writings about ghost stories, Edith Wharton points out the importance of believing consciously in ghosts in order to enjoy the stories, but it seems that Wharton uses the genre to say something more about belief. Through her ghost stories, Wharton, though she generally emphasizes rationality, places herself between the rational and the irrational, a space where something or someone \"not here\" could be technically \"here.\" In this respect, Wharton makes her ghost stories a space to speculate on metaphysical questions which, in the context of William James's philosophy of religion and late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century spiritualism, was often regarded as irrational. In \"The Fulness of Life,\" Wharton assumes the afterlife as fact and searches for the possibility of settling difficult earthly matters in the world of the dead. Later, in \"Mr. Jones,\" she seeks the possible path of literary afterlife through the ghost figure and through allusions to dead authors like Edgar Allan Poe. Finally, in \"The Looking-Glass,\" Wharton combines themes from earlier stories, presenting a character who mediates between true and false spiritualism and between spiritualism and Catholicism.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"47 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80296586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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