Elizabeth Ammons

Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton’s Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900–1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.

Elizabeth Ammons

Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton’s Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900–1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.

Books by Elizabeth Ammons

  • The House of Mirth

    Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

    Paperback, 1990

    This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Norton Critical Edition

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

    Third Edition, Paperback, 2017

    One of the most important activist texts in American literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.
  • The House of Mirth: A Norton Critical Edition

    Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

    Second Edition, Paperback, 2018

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Norton Critical Edition

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

    Third Edition, E Book, 2021

    One of the most important activist texts in American literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.