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Women and literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History --- Glaspell, Susan, --- Cook, George Cram, --- Cook, Susan, --- Glaspel, Susan, --- Fictional works.

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In a detailed critical analysis, Martha Carpentier shows how six novels by the modernist American writer Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) speak to readers today, both in their focus on female sexuality and development and in their often subversive narrative form. Glaspell was prolific, producing 50 short stories, 14 plays, and 9 novels, yet critical rediscovery of her work has focused on her 10-year career as a playwright with the Provincetown Players. Carpentier reestablishes the significance of Glaspell's novels by using a variety of critical methodologies, including psychoanalytic and myth criticism as well as contemporary theories of a female semiotic. Carpentier also shows how Glaspell's experience writing expressionistic drama enriched her skills as a novelist, and she is unique in seeing Glaspell's two-year sojourn in Greece as a watershed in her life and art. She maintains that the novels that reflect that experience (Fugitive's Return and The Morning Is Near Us) ingeniously parallel a subtext of classical allusion with contemporary life. In her novels even more radically than in her stories and drama, Glaspell puts women and their relationships with each other on center stage, charting in each a protagonist's journey of self-discovery through her buried past. In this first and definitive study of Glaspell’s novels, Carpentier shows how all of them offer significant meaning for a growing contemporary audience.

Women and literature --- Glaspell, Susan, - 1876-1948

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For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated critical approaches to Susan Glaspell’s entire oeuvre. Glaspell’s one-act play, “Trifles,” and the short story that she constructed from it, “A Jury of Her Peers,” have drawn the attention of many feminist critics, but the rest of her writing—the short stories, plays and novels—is largely unknown. The essays gathered here will allow students of literature, women’s studies and theater studies an insight into the variety and scope of her oeuvre. Glaspell’s political and literary thinking was radicalized by the turbulent Greenwich Village environment of the first decades of the twentieth century, by progressive-era social movements and by modernist literary and theatrical innovation. The focus of Glaspell studies has, till recently, been dominated by the feminist imperative to recover a canon of silenced women writers and, in particular, to restore Glaspell to her rightful place in American drama. Transcending the limitations generated by such a specific agenda, the contributors to this volume approach Glaspell’s work as a dialogic intersection of genres, texts, and cultural phenomena—a method that is particularly apt for Glaspell, who moved between genres with a unique fluidity, creating such modernist masterpieces as The Verge or Brook Evans . This volume establishes Glaspell’s work as an “intersection of textual surfaces,” resulting for the first time in the complex aesthetic appreciation that her varied life’s work merits.

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One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and more than fifty short stories. Her work was popular and critically acclaimed during her lifetime, with her novels appearing on best-seller lists and her stories published in major magazines and in The Best American Short Stories. Many of her short works display her remarkable abilities as a humorist, satirizing cultural conventions and the narrowness of small-town life. And yet they also evoke serious questions-relevant as much today as during Glas

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