Affiliation:
1. Elizabeth Ammons is Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Argument with America (1980) and Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century (1991) as well as various essays, and she has edited a number of volumes, including Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900–1920 (1991) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin”: A Casebook (2007). She is currently writing a book on activism and American literature.
Abstract
Blanketed in whiteness—bleak, frozen, snowed in—the widely read and taught Ethan Frome has a little-recognized racist subtext. Expressing early-twentieth-century nativist anxieties about immigrants of color, Wharton warns that old, white, Yankee New England is disappearing, its farms withering, as swarthy foreigners increasingly dominate the newly industrialized landscape.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History
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