The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell.(Book Review)

From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By Martha C. Carpentier Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.202 pp. $55.00

Martha Carpentier's The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell directs the spotlight, for the first time, on Glaspell's novels. As Carpentier indicates in her introduction, Glaspell studies have focused on the plays, and the novels have generally been dismissed as inferior, a trend set in motion by Arthur Waterman and, of course, emphasized by Christopher Bigsby, who has done so much to recover Glaspell for American drama. It is indeed high time to recover the novels too, and Carpentier's ...

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