Critical Essays on Susan Glaspell

Linda Ben-Zvi, Editor


The first book-length critical assessment of author Susan Glaspell.

The career of Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), the American playwright and novelist, 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 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.

This book is the first collection devoted to the study of the body of Glaspell's work. Essays by leading playwrights and scholars provide an array of perspectives on the writer and her work. The book features the first complete Glaspell bibliography, including original reviews of her plays and fiction and recent critical studies of her writing.

Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor of English and Theater, Colorado State University.

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6 x 9, ca 320 pages

ISBN 0-472-10549-3

cloth 39.50E (tentative)

December

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Lifted Masks and Other Works
Susan Glaspell

With an Introduction by Eric Rabkin

6 x 9, 344 pages, 1993

ISBN 0-472-09509-9

cloth 32.50E

ISBN 0-472-06509-2

paper 13.95E