{"title":"Sexual Violence and Ghostly Justice in “The Lady's Maid's Bell” and “Kerfol”","authors":"Ohler","doi":"10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.32.1-2.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/EDITWHARREVI.32.1-2.0040","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Edith Wharton's “The Lady's Maid's Bell” (1902, 1904) and “Kerfol” (1916) share a concern with sexual violence, isolation, and psychological abuse experienced by women. I argue that the stories depict irruptions of a spectral women's history into naturalized gender relations. I describe Wharton's mixing of Gothic, realist, and naturalist modes to depict a character type she found most interesting, one whose “fate is settled beyond rescue,” to support my contention that we should recognize the continuity of these stories with those aspects of her “major fictions, [which] taken together, constitute perhaps the most searching—and searing—feminist analysis of the construction of ‘femininity’ produced by any novelist in this [the twentieth] century.” Most assessments of the stories are not comparative. Thus, I draw here on the critical response to each story to advance the claim that by apposing them we find overlapping concerns with sexual violence, the historical contingency of gender, and the difficulties of achieving justice for women.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"197 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85909202","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":"Dressed as in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform","authors":"Arielle Zibrak","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84882594","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":"“Agrope among alien forces”: Alchemical Transformations and Capitalist Transactions in Edith Wharton's The Touchstone","authors":"Ann Girling","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.74","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82027574","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":"Digital Resources and the Magazine Context of Edith Wharton's Short Stories","authors":"P. Ohler","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.57","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73000460","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":"A Month at The Mount","authors":"Sheila Liming","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.88","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75979071","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":"Toward Self-Realization: A Critical Study of Edith Wharton's Eight Novels","authors":"Carol J. Singley","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79214023","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":"Celebrity and the Epistolary Afterlife in Edith Wharton's Early Fiction","authors":"Cynthia Port","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84733988","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":"Editor's Column: The Edith Wharton Review at 31","authors":"Meredith L. Goldsmith","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86450927","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}