Susan Glaspell in Context

by J. Ellen Gainor (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108487573
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/27/2023
Series:	Literature in Context
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

J. Ellen Gainor is Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She wrote the award-winning Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics 1915-1948 (2001) and co-edited, with Linda Ben-Zvi, Susan Glaspell: The Complete Plays (2010). Gainor has published multiple articles, reviews, and reference works on Glaspell and serves as consultant to professional theatres staging Glaspell's plays.

Table of Contents

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.