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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456659103321

Titolo

Susan Glaspell [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in critical inquiry / / edited and introduction by Martha C. Carpentier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-02982-7

9786612029820

1-4438-0407-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarpentierMartha Celeste

Disciplina

813.52

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; SUSAN GLASPELL AND THE MODERNIST EXPERIMENT OF CHAINS OF DEW; A TREMBLING HAND AND A ROCKING CHAIR; ANTIGONE REDUX; FORESHADOWING "A JURY OF HER PEERS"; WOMAN'S HONOR AND THE CRITIQUE OF SLANDER PER SE; SUSAN GLASPELL'S LAST WORD ON DEMOCRACY AND WAR; SUSAN GLASPELL AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS OF MODERNITY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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