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Susan Glaspell in Context provides new, accessible, and informative essays by leading international scholars and artists on Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell's life, career development, writing, and ongoing global creative impact. The collection features wide-ranging discussions of Glaspell's fiction, plays, and non-fiction in both historical and contemporary critical contexts, and demonstrates the significance of Glaspell's writing and other professional activities to a range of academic disciplines and artistic engagements. The volume also includes the first analyses of six previously unknown Glaspell short stories, as well as interviews with contemporary stage and film artists who have produced Glaspell's works or adapted them for audiences worldwide. Organized around key locations, influences, and phases in Glaspell's career, as well as core methodological and pedagogical approaches to her work, the collection's thirty-one essays place Glaspell in historical, geographical, political, cultural, and creative contexts of value to students, scholars, teachers, and artists alike.

Glaspell, Susan, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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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Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist, founding member of the Provincetown Players, best-selling novelist and award-winning short fiction writer, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) has been recovered from the marginalization of women writers that took place in the post-war period of canon-formation in America. Her recovery, begun by feminist critics and theatre historians in the 1980's, reached a milestone with the 1995 publication of the first collection of critical essays, Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction, edited by Linda Ben-Zvi. Since then scholarship has been exploding, with six major

Authors, American --- American authors --- Glaspell, Susan, --- Cook, George Cram, --- Cook, Susan, --- Glaspel, Susan, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Journalism --- Theatrical science --- Thematology --- Journalism --- Writers --- Theatre --- Biography --- Book --- Glaspell, Susan --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America

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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.

Glaspell, Susan, --- Cook, George Cram, --- Cook, Susan, --- Glaspel, Susan, --- Criticism and interpretation, --- American literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers)