Susan Glaspell

Barbara Ozieblo (Universidad de Malaga)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 1 Jul 1876
Died 27 Jul 1948
Activity 1900-1948

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Biographer
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Story-writer
Theatre actor

Resources

Glaspell's Works

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Feminist criticism has been re-instating Susan Glaspell in the canon of American women writers for well over two decades now, but as happens so frequently with “rediscovered” authors, only the play

Trifles

and the story she based on it, “A Jury of Her Peers”, have received sustained critical attention and have been included in college syllabi. However, as a number of recent scholarly contributions on Glaspell have shown, her plays, stories and novels probe the mores and transformations of her time, applying and adapting European thought to early twentieth-century America. Nietzsche and Strindberg, arguably the greatest influences on Glaspell’s mind and writing, resonate in her most experimental play,

The Verge

, while Freud and psychoanalysis inspire

Suppressed Desires

; Glaspell…

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Citation: Ozieblo, Barbara. "Susan Glaspell". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 February 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1767, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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