Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xvi

Reading Freeman Again, Anew

pp 1-22

Part I - Kinship Outside of Normative Structures

pp 23-24

1 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Neighborly Encounters and the Project of Neighborliness

pp 25-42

2 - “Her Own Creed of Bloom”: The Transcendental Ecofeminism of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

pp 43-59

3 - “Preposterous Fancies” or a “Plain, Common World?” Queer World-Making in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “The Prism” (1901)

pp 60-76

Part II - Violent, Criminal, and Infanticidal: Freeman’s Odd Women

pp 77-78

4 - The Reign of the Dolls: Violence and the Nonhuman in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

pp 79-94

5 - Transatlantic Lloronas: Infanticide and Gender in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Alexandros Papadiamantis

pp 95-111

6 - Redefining the New England Nun: A Revisionist Reading in the Context of Pembroke and Irish American Fiction

pp 112-128

Part III - Women’s Work: Capital, Business, Labor

pp 129-130

7 - Hunger Strikes: Queer Naturalism and the Gendering of Solidarity in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s The Portion of Labor

pp 131-146

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

pp 147-163

9 - Literary Businesswoman Extraordinaire

pp 164-181

10 - Deconstructing Upper-Middle-Class Rites and Rituals: Reading Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Stories Alongside Mary Louise Booth’s Harper’s Bazar

pp 182-200

Part IV - Periodization Reconsidered

pp 201-202

11 - Mobilizing the Great War in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Edgewater People

pp 203-218

12 - A Cacophony of Voices: Freeman’s Modernism

pp 219-235

13 - Underground Influence: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Pastiche of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

pp 236-252

14 - Untimely Freeman

pp 253-271

Afterword: Why Mary E. Wilkins Freeman? Why Now? Where Next?

pp 272-285

Index

pp 286-296