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Freeman is best known today for her short regionalist fiction. Recently, Freeman studies have taken new turns including ecocriticism, trauma studies, the Gothic, and queer theory. The essay collection pushes these developments further. Contributors aim at revisiting and going beyond Freeman's regionalism. They challenge earlier feminist readings of the female realm by arguing that her short fiction and novels depict women and girls as violent and criminal, suffocating as well as nurturing; they bring to light questions of race and ethnicity that have been conspicuously absent from scholarship on Freeman, as well as issues of class. Because questions of women's work are central to Freeman's oeuvre, this collection discusses Freeman's acumen as a businesswoman herself, a participant as well as a castigator of turn-of-the-century US capitalism. Finally, essays reconsider the periodization of Freeman by exploring her little acknowledged post-1902 and therefore post-marriage fiction—her war stories and her urban stories.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Reading Freeman Again, Anew - Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, Cécile Roudeau
Kinship Outside of Normative Structures
1. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Neighborly Encounters and the Project of Neighborliness - Jana Tigchelaar
2. "Her Own Creed of Bloom": The Transcendental Ecofeminism of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Susan M. Stone
3. "Preposterous Fancies" or a "Plain, Common World?" Queer World-Making in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "The Prism" (1901) - H.J.E. Champion
Violent, Criminal, and Infanticidal: Freeman's Odd Women
4. The Reign of the Dolls: Violence and the Nonhuman in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Donna M. Campbell
5. Transatlantic Lloronas: Infanticide and Gender in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Alexandros Papadiamantis - Myrto Drizou
6. Redefining the New England Nun: A Revisionist Reading in the Context of Pembroke and Irish American Fiction - Aušra Paulauskienė
Women's Work: Capital, Business, Labor
7. Hunger Strikes: Queer Naturalism and the Gendering of Solidarity in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's The Portion of Labor - Justin Rogers-Cooper
8. "It Won't Be Long Before the Grind-Mill in There Will Get Hold of Him": The Theft of Childhood in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's The Portion of Labor - Laura Dawkins
9. Literary Businesswoman Extraordinaire - Brent L. Kendrick
10. "Deconstructing Upper-Middle-Class Rites and Rituals: Reading Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Stories Alongside Mary Louise Booth's Harper's Bazar" - Audrey Fogels
Periodization Reconsidered
11. Mobilizing the Great War in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Edgewater People - Daniel Mrozowski
12. A Cacophony of Voices: Freeman's Modernism - Monika Elbert
13. Underground Influence: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Pastiche of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Stephanie Palmer
14. Untimely Freeman - Cécile Roudeau
Afterword: Why Mary E. Wilkins Freeman? Why Now? Where Next? - Sandra A. Zagarell
List of Contributors
Index
