Susan Glaspell in Context

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.

Author: J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/27/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781108487573

About the Author
Gainor, J. Ellen: - 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.