| Description |
vi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Theater--Theory/text/performance |
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Theater--theory/text/performance.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Linda Ben-Zvi -- "Murder, She Wrote": The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Small Things Reconsidered: "A Jury of Her Peers" / Elaine Hedges -- Murder and Marriage: Another Look at Trifles / Karen Alkalay-Gut -- "The Haunting Beauty from the Life We've Left": A Contextual Reading of Trifles and The Verge / Liza Maeve Nelligan -- Suppression and Society in Susan Glaspell's Theater / Barbara Ozieblo -- Reflections on The Verge / Karen Malpede -- The Verge: L'Écriture Féminine at the Provincetown / Marcia Noe -- Beyond The Verge: Absent Heroines in the Plays of Susan Glaspell / Jackie Czerepinski -- Bernice's Strange Deceit: The Avenging Angel in the House / Sharon Friedman -- Chains of Dew and the Drama of Birth Control / J. Ellen Gainor -- Glaspell and Dickinson: Surveying the Premises of Alison's House / Katharine Rodier -- Conflict of Interest: The Ideology of Authorship in Alison's House / Karen Laughlin -- Susan Glaspell: Mapping the Domains of Critical Revision / Gerhard Bach -- Susan's Sisters: The "Other" Women Writers of the Provincetown Players / Judith E. Barlow -- Lifting the Masks of Male-Female Discourse: The Rhetorical Strategies of Susan Glaspell / Colette Lindroth -- Forging a woman's Identity in Susan Glaspell's Fiction / Meronica Makowsky -- Susan Glaspell Chronology -- Susan Glaspell Bibliography. |
| Summary |
The career of Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) follows closely the trajectory of other "reclaimed" American women writers of the century such as Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Zora Neale Hurston: well known in her time, effaced from canonical consideration after her death, rediscovered years later through the surfacing of one work around which critical attention has focused. Glaspell, a contemporary of Eugene O'Neill, was a respected international playwright and novelist who amassed some of the most impressive credentials in American theater history, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. Over the past fifteen years, she has been rediscovered through the work of leading feminist scholars, and her one-act play Trifles and its short story form, "A Jury of Her Peers," have become classics. |
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Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction is the first collection devoted to the body of Glaspell's work. The book provides an array of perspectives on the writer and her art and features the first complete Glaspell bibliography, including references to original reviews of Glaspell's plays and fiction and recent critical studies of her writing. |
| Subject |
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 (OCoLC)fst00080896
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Glaspell, Susan.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Subject |
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Toneelvoorstellingen.
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Toneelstukken.
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Drama.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Ben-Zvi, Linda.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Susan Glaspell. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995 (OCoLC)606422632 |
| ISBN |
0472105493 |
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9780472105496 |
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