Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women A Critical Interpretation of Her Work

Name: Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women A Critical Interpretation of Her Work
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ISBN: 9780195078664

ISBN-10: 0195078667

ISBN-13: 9780195078664

Edition: 1993

Authors: Veronica Makowsky

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As a female writer in the shadow of the cultural nimbus generated by her male peers, and as a transcendentalist in the spirit of Emerson among modernists, Susan Glaspell has suffered from literary obscurity from the start. An accomplished playwright, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players, Glaspell created self-reliant female heroines in works which were often dismissed as "experimental" by her colleagues. Makowsky's engagingly written study, by focusing on the women of Glaspell's writing and their struggles with the issues of motherhood and social limitation, seeks to vindicate Susan Glaspell and to offer her work to the attention of a new generation of readers. At the same time,…

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List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.54" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858



Acknowledgments


Introduction The Hydra Heads of Obscurity



American Girl Becomes American Woman: a Fortunate Fall?



The Glory of the Conquered: Cultural Confusions and Apprentice Fiction



Fidelity to the Future through """"Visioning""""



Passive Resistance to Active Rebellion: from Trifles to the Verge



Whose Life Is It Anyway? the Road to the Temple



Ghostly Revenants and Symbolic Sons: Fugitives Return



Symbolic Fathers and the Revenge of the Dutiful Daughters



Older, Wiser, and Sadder: Glaspell's Female Reifungsromane


Index