Contributors aim at revisiting and going beyond Freeman’s regionalism. The essay collection pushes these developments further. Recently, Freeman studies have taken new turns including ecocriticism, trauma studies, the Gothic, and queer theory.
Involves a transatlantic array of scholars (based in the US, the UK, Finland, France, Turkey, Lithuania) at different stages of their career-from some long-time specialists of Freeman to some international PhD studentsįreeman is best known today for her short regionalist fiction.Raises important questions about single-author scholarship and argues for new critical views that go beyond the single author.Reconsiders periodization: Freeman is read as a modernist and a World War One writer whose long, evolving career questions critical readings of her work within the confines of turn-of-the-century realism and regionalism.Updates approaches to Freeman by considering ecocriticism, race, labor and class, transnationalism.Moves beyond an analysis of the short stories for which Freeman is best known to examine her novels Pembroke (1894), Madelon (1896), and The Portion of Labor (1901) stories for youths and uncollected stories and post-1902 fiction from her late career.Contextualizes key developments in Freeman criticism since 1991.New research on Freeman’s fiction that challenge and expand earlier feminist readings of the female realm Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and against the GrainĮdinburgh University Press – Hardcover 2023 Editors: Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, Cécile Roudeau
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