Intimate Strangers: Regionalism and the Construction of Nonhuman Subjectivities in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Animal Fiction.
What is the role of genre in the fictional representation of animals? Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's collection Understudies (1901) demonstrates how regionalist conventions are extended into nonhuman domains. Understudies attempts to do for nonhuman creatures what regionalist writers had long done for ma...
| Published in: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2026
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