Susan Glaspell in Context

A collection of accessible, informative essays by leading scholars and artists on Susan Glaspell's life, works, and ongoing creative impact.

J. Ellen Gainor (Edited by)

9781108487573, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 July 2023

320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.652 kg

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.

Part I. Susan Glaspell's Early Writing and Her Midwestern Contexts: 1. Susan Glaspell: a rebel against the chains that bind Barbara Ozieblo
2. The Midwest in American culture Marcia Noe
3. Women in American journalism Jerry Dickey
4. Glaspell's short fiction and magazine culture Jennifer J. Smith
5. Glaspell's recovered early fiction: on her six 'New' short stories
6. 'Jig' Cook and the Philosophical Tradition Mike Solomonson
7. Susan Glaspell and the Chicago renaissance Stuart J. Hecht
8.The Hossack murder and the genesis of trifles/'a jury of her peers' Patricia l. Bryan
9. Beyond writing: Susan Glaspell and the federal theatre project Elizabeth A. Osborne
Part II. The Bohemian Context: Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and The Rise of American Modernism: 10. Glaspell among the village people Christoph Irmscher
11. Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown players Brenda Murphy
12. Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill Jeffery Kennedy
13. The little theatre movement in the United States Dorothy Chansky
14. Susan Glaspell modernist playwright Linda Ben-Zvi
15. Susan Glaspell and the modernist novel Martha C. Carpentier
Part III. Susan Glaspell and American Culture and Politics: 16. Susan Glaspell's challenges to nativist discourse Sharon Friedman
17. Glaspell after Darwin Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
18. Glaspell and American education Michael Winetsky
19. Susan Glaspell and sex J. Ellen Gainor
Part IV. Susan Glaspell, Women Artists, and Feminist History and Criticism: 20. Susan Glaspell, the Provincetown players, and Greenwich village feminism Cheryl Black
21. Setting the pattern: 'constrained' feminism in Glaspell's early novels Veronica Makowsky
22. Susan Glaspell and Emily Dickinson Noelia Hernando-Real
23. The feminist rediscovery of Susan Glaspell Mary E. Papke
24. Trifles, 'Jury,' and feminist legal criticism Sara Schotland
Part V. Susan Glaspell in Broader Geographical Contexts: 25. Susan Glaspell in Greece: self and service Drew Eisenhauer
26. Glaspell's dramas in England: early production, publication, and reception Katharine Cockin
27. Glaspell in translation Emeline Jouve
Part VI. Susan Glaspell on Stage and Screen: 28. Renovation and transformation: Adapting the writing of Susan Glaspell Milbre Burch
29. Making an independent film of 'A Jury of Her Peers' in the 1970s Sally Heckel
30. Teaching trifles in the writing room Aoise Stratford
31. Susan Glaspell in performance: a curated conversation with directors Sam Walters, Auriol Smith, Alex Roe, Meg Roe, Alice Reagan, Jonathan Bank, Barbara Ozieblo and J. Ellen Gainor.

Subject Areas: Theatre studies [AN]