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Susan Glaspell
Glaspell, Susan - glăsˈpĕl, 1876–1948, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa, grad. Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown Players, an avant-garde theater group in Massachusetts. She wrote several plays for the company, including the one-acts Suppressed Desires (written with her husband, 1916) and Read More...
Glaspell, Susan - glăsˈpĕl, 1876–1948, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa, grad. Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown Players, an avant-garde theater group in Massachusetts. She wrote several plays for the company, including the one-acts Suppressed Desires (written with her husband, 1916) and Trifles (1916). She also served as actress and producer. Her longer plays include The Inheritors (1921) and Alison's House (1930; Pulitzer Prize). In addition she wrote several novels, short stories, and a biography of Cook, The Road to the Temple (1926). See biography by B. Ozieblo (2001). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women: A Critical Interpretation of Her Work
by Veronica Makowsky. 176 pgs.
Tracing the evolution of Susan Glaspell's writing, Veronica Makowsky provides fascinating glimpses of the life of a woman who broke the barriers against female journalists, advocated socialism, struggled with the precepts of Greenwich Village free love, was one of the founders of the Provincetown Players, participated in the sessions of the feminist Heterodoxy Club, placed women's concerns on the stage as a playwright and actress, and wrote about a turbulent century of American women with courage, optimism, sensitivity, and love. This is the first full-length book about Glaspell's works, including the fiction and lifewriting that bracketed her relatively brief career as the playwright best-known for the one-act drama Trifles. Also the author of many other plays, including the Pulitzer prize-winning Alison's House, a number of collected and uncollected short stories, nine novels, and a biography of her husband the iconoclastic George Cram Cook, Glaspell was an artist of formidable, but ill-acknowledged talent. Makowsky places Glaspell's work in its biographical and cultural context, with particular attention to Glaspell's depiction of women's roles over a century of American history. In addition, she examines closely Glaspell's use of the maternal metaphor and her depiction of women in the role of mothers. This absorbing and revelatory study rescues one of America's literary "foremothers" from relative obscurity, challenging canonical ideas about the circumstances that lead to literary "greatness."
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Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays ("Trifles: A Play" by Susan Glaspell begins on p. 361)
by Rank Shay, Pierre Loving. 582 pgs.
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The Pulitzer Prize Plays, 1918-1934 ("Alison's House" by Susan Glaspell begins on p. 649)
by Kathryn Coe, William H. Cordell. 856 pgs.
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)" begins on p. 133)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.
Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.
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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950 ("Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)" begins on p. 36)
by Yvonne Shafer. 548 pgs.
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Difference in View: Women and Modernism (Chap. 11 "'Meeting the Outside': The Theatre of Susan Glaspell")
by Gabriele Griffin. 186 pgs.
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles" begins on p. 289)
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.
This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.
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Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell
by Martha C. Carpentier, Barbara Ozieblo. 307 pgs.
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Susan Glaspell's Fiction: 'Fidelity' as American Romance, in Twentieth Century Literature
by Martha C. Carpenter. 22 pgs.
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The Drama of Transition: Native and Exotic Playcraft ("Susan Glaspell" begins on p. 472)
by Isaac Goldberg. 487 pgs.
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Playwrights of the New American Theater (1925) ("Susan Glaspell and Zoe Akins" begins on p. 208)
by Thomas H. Dickinson. 334 pgs.
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition (Chap. Four "The Provincetown Players' Experiments with Realism")
by William W. Demastes. 292 pgs.
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