Issue 42.2 of Resources for American Literary Study features exciting new developments for the study of early and nineteenth-century literature. First in the issue is Stephanie Palmer's “Prospects for the Study of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,” which takes us beyond the Freeman recovery work of the 1980s and 1990s to highlight twenty-first-century discoveries of previously little-known Freeman fiction and new scholarship presenting Gothic, naturalist, ecocritical, feminist-materialist, and queer-theory approaches. Palmer spotlights intriguing possibilities for future Freeman studies, where new attention to race, transnational contexts, aesthetics, and style will further enrich our understandings of Freeman's multifaceted writings.
A multipart collaborative forum entitled “Reimagining Early American Literature” next details a new digital resource and illustrates its application as scholars reenvision the early American literary canon. Abram Van Engen's introduction to the forum offers an overview of Exploring Anthologies of Early American Literature, a searchable database with a compendium of information on...
