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This series will publish exciting interventions in American literary and cultural studies from the post-Revolutionary moment to the aesthetic and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. It will focus on work that explores the place of the United States within a transnational American geography, as well as those other powerful networks of exchange and affiliation - class, race, gender and sexuality - that have often worked to contest the very idea of the United States itself. We are keen, too, to expand the idea of 'the literary' by encouraging research that addresses non-canonical discursive forms, including sermons, theatrical performances, periodical journalism, broadsides and philosophical tracts. The series will be at the forefront of new work that opens up and extends our understanding of the historical importance of the period, as well as its ongoing relevance to our contemporary moment.

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New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Reading with and against the Grain
  • Edited by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, Cécile Roudeau
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    20 October 2023
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • 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.