New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman : : Reading with and against the Grain /

New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman : : Reading with and against the Grain / / ed. by Stephanie Palmer.

New research on Freeman’s fiction that challenge and expand earlier feminist readings of the female realmContextualizes key developments in Freeman criticism since 1991Moves beyond an analysis of the short stories for which Freeman is best known to examine her novels Pembroke (1894), Madelon (1896),...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Campbell, Donna M.,
Champion, H. J. E.,
Dawkins, Laura,
Drizou, Myrto,
Elbert, Monika,
Fogels, Audrey,
Kendrick, Brent L.,
Mrozowski, Daniel,
Palmer, Stephanie,
Paulauskienė, Aušra,
Rogers-Cooper, Justin,
Roudeau, Cécile,
Stone, Susan M.,
Tigchelaar, Jana,
Zagarell, Sandra A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Palmer, Stephanie,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 13 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • READING FREEMAN AGAIN, ANEW
  • PART I: KINSHIP OUTSIDE OF NORMATIVE STRUCTURES
  • 1 MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S NEIGHBORLY ENCOUNTERS AND THE PROJECT OF NEIGHBORLINESS
  • 2 “HER OWN CREED OF BLOOM”: THE TRANSCENDENTAL ECOFEMINISM OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
  • 3 “PREPOSTEROUS FANCIES” OR A “PLAIN, COMMON WORLD”? QUEER WORLD-MAKING IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S “THE PRISM” (1901)
  • PART II: VIOLENT, CRIMINAL, AND INFANTICIDAL: FREEMAN’S ODD WOMEN
  • 4 THE REIGN OF THE DOLLS: VIOLENCE AND THE NONHUMAN IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
  • 5 TRANSATLANTIC LLORONAS: INFANTICIDE AND GENDER IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN AND ALEXANDROS PAPADIAMANTIS
  • 6 REDEFINING THE NEW ENGLAND NUN: A REVISIONIST READING IN THE CONTEXT OF PEMBROKE AND IRISH AMERICAN FICTION
  • PART III: 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
  • 8 “IT WON’T BE LONG BEFORE THE GRIND-MILL GETS HOLD OF HIM”: CHILD LABOR IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S THE PORTION OF LABOR
  • 9 LITERARY BUSINESSWOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
  • 10 DECONSTRUCTING UPPER-MIDDLECLASS RITES AND RITUALS: READING MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S STORIES ALONGSIDE MARY LOUISE BOOTH’S HARPER’S BAZAR
  • PART IV: PERIODIZATION RECONSIDERED
  • 11 MOBILIZING THE GREAT WAR IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S EDGEWATER PEOPLE
  • 12 A CACOPHONY OF VOICES: FREEMAN’S MODERNISM
  • 13 UNDERGROUND INFLUENCE: SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER’S PASTICHE OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
  • 14 UNTIMELY FREEMAN
  • AFTERWORD: WHY MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN? WHY NOW? WHERE NEXT?
  • Index

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