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Back issues of the Edith Wharton Review, 1984 -

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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 7th ed. MLA style, using endnotes, not footnotes. Authors should be members of the Edith Wharton Society at the time of publication of their work. Writer's name should not appear on manuscript, only on the cover letter.

If you would like to submit your manuscript as an email attachment, please write directly to the editors at the email addresses below to inquire about email submissions.

North American authors send cover letter with triplicates of paper to:

Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Editor
Kean University, English Department
CAS 3rd floor
1000 Morris Avenue
Union, NJ 07083

ckoros.kean@gmail.com

Authors not from North America, send cover letters with triplicates of paper to:

Dr. Ann L. Patten
40 Montpelier Gardens
Off Infirmary Road
Dublin 7
Ireland

pattena@tcd.ie

Membership in the Edith Wharton Society and subscription to the Review is $20 (domestic) and $25 (foreign).

Order form for back issues. All available issues are online at the link above, but use this form if you would like a paper copy.

Recent Tables of Contents

Volume 27.2, Fall 2011

Faulstick, Dustin H. "'He that Loveth Silver Shall Not Be Satisfied with Silver'" Reconsidering the Connection between The House of Mirth and Ecclesiastes."Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 1-12.

Patten, Ann L. "'The Wanamaker Touch in Fiction' and Edith Wharton's Guide to Novel-writing in Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive." Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 12-22.

Raphael, Lev. "Writing Wharton's Wrong." Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 22-2.

Shaffer-Koros, Carol. "Wharton in New York." Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 23-24.

Goldman-Price, Irene. "Edith Wharton Collection Research Report." Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 24-25.

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. Rev. of Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race by Jennie A. Kassanoff. Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 25-26.

Campbell, Donna. Rev. of The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton, ed. Laura Rattray. Edith Wharton Review 27.2 (Fall 2011): 26-27.

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 7th 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 the deadline to Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros at the address above.

Editor:  Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Kean University
Co-Editor: Ann Patten
Editorial Board:   
Donna Campbell Kathy Fedorko Irene Goldman-Price
Hildegard Hoeller Margaret Murray Elsa Nettels
Julie Olin-Ammentorp Emily Orlando Laura Rattray
Charlotte Rich Laura Saltz Carol Singley
Gary Totten Frederick Wegener  

Editorial Board members from previous years:

Harriet Gold Kenneth Price Sharon Shaloo
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser Alan Price Melissa Pennell
Jean Blackall Mary Papke Edie Thornton
Betsy Klimasmith Founding Editor: Annette Zilversmit