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

Contents\nFigures\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nCONTRIBUTORS\nREADING FREEMAN AGAIN, ANEW\nPART I: KINSHIP OUTSIDE OF NORMATIVE STRUCTURES\n1 MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S NEIGHBORLY ENCOUNTERS AND THE PROJECT OF NEIGHBORLINESS\n2 “HER OWN CREED OF BLOOM”: THE TRANSCENDENTAL ECOFEMINISM OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN\n3 “PREPOSTEROUS FANCIES” OR A “PLAIN, COMMON WORLD”? QUEER WORLD-MAKING IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S “THE PRISM” (1901)\nPART II: VIOLENT, CRIMINAL, AND INFANTICIDAL: FREEMAN’S ODD WOMEN\n4 THE REIGN OF THE DOLLS: VIOLENCE AND THE NONHUMAN IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN\n5 TRANSATLANTIC LLORONAS: INFANTICIDE AND GENDER IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN AND ALEXANDROS PAPADIAMANTIS\n6 REDEFINING THE NEW ENGLAND NUN: A REVISIONIST READING IN THE CONTEXT OF PEMBROKE AND IRISH AMERICAN FICTION\nPART III: WOMEN’S WORK: CAPITAL, BUSINESS, LABOR\n7 HUNGER STRIKES: QUEER NATURALISM AND THE GENDERING OF SOLIDARITY IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S THE PORTION OF LABOR\n8 “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\n9 LITERARY BUSINESSWOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE\n10 DECONSTRUCTING UPPER-MIDDLECLASS RITES AND RITUALS: READING MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S STORIES ALONGSIDE MARY LOUISE BOOTH’S HARPER’S BAZAR\nPART IV: PERIODIZATION RECONSIDERED\n11 MOBILIZING THE GREAT WAR IN MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN’S EDGEWATER PEOPLE\n12 A CACOPHONY OF VOICES: FREEMAN’S MODERNISM\n13 UNDERGROUND INFLUENCE: SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER’S PASTICHE OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN\n14 UNTIMELY FREEMAN\nAFTERWORD: WHY MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN? WHY NOW? WHERE NEXT?\nIndex