In a closet hidden : the life and work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman /
"The first literary biography of a much-neglected American writer, this book explores the multiple tensions at the core of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's life and work. A prolific short story writer and novelist, Freeman (1852-1930) developed a reputation as a local colorist who depicted the pe...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "The first literary biography of a much-neglected American writer, this book explores the multiple tensions at the core of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's life and work. A prolific short story writer and novelist, Freeman (1852-1930) developed a reputation as a local colorist who depicted the peculiarities of her native New England. Yet as Leah Blatt Glasser shows, Freeman was one of the first American authors to write extensively about the relationships women form outside of marriage and motherhood, the role of work in women's lives, the complexity of women's sexuality, and the interior lives of women who rebel rather than conform to patriarchal strictures." "In a Closet Hidden traces Freeman's evolution as a writer, showing how her own inner conflicts repeatedly found expression in her art. As Glasser demonstrates, Freeman's work examined the competing claims of creativity and convention, self-fulfillment and self-sacrifice, spinsterhood and marriage, lesbianism and heterosexuality."--Jacket. "With critical sophistication and an appreciative eye, Glasser portrays a woman's hard and ambivalent struggle to write within and against conventional norms of femininity. Freeman, surrounded by her splendid fictional creations, comes alive within her own cultural context and for ours. An evocative, moving story". -- Sara Ruddick |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | "Selected bibliography of the works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman": (pages 257-260). Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585083517 1122054475 1613769865 9780585083513 9781122054478 9781613769867 |