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1 online resource (1 volume.) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture |
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Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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| 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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Mary E. Wilkins 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. This essay collection pushes these developments further. Contributors revisit and go 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 |
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Print version record |
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Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 fast |
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HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Cultural studies.
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Literature.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Palmer, Stephanie, 1958- editor.
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Drizou, Myrto, editor
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Roudeau, Cécile, editor
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| ISBN |
9781399504492 |
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1399504495 |
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