New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Name: New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
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Reading with and against the Grain

By: Stephanie Palmer (Editor), Myrto Drizou (Editor), Cecile Roudeau (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 March 2025

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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.

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New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman offers a fresh look at this remarkable 19th-century writer. The essays capture the range of Freeman's work, "with and against the grain," and the problem with traditional categorization, uncovering alternative modes of critical thinking about a writer whose work spans almost 50 years.--Leah Blatt Glasser, Mount Holyoke College

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