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Susan Glaspell : her life and times / Linda Ben-Zvi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben-Zvi, Linda, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Dramatists, American.
- Women dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Women dramatists, American.
- Women novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Women novelists, American.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women in the theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Women in the theater.
- Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948.
- Glaspell, Susan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (509 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This biography of Susan Glaspell traces the development of the first important American female playwright and illustrates the ways in which her fascinating, avant-garde life provided the model and materials for her groundbreaking dramas and fiction.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Blackhawk's Land; 1. A Town Springs Up; 2. Families in Fact and Fiction; 3. Society Girls; 4. Delphic Days; 5. The Genesis of Trifles; 6. Chicago; 7. A Greek Out of Time; 8. The Monist Society; 9. Letters to Mollie; 10. Travel at Home and Abroad; 11. "Though Stone Be Broken,"; 12. Staging Area for the Future; 13. A Home by the Sea; 14. War and Peace; 15. A Theatre on a Wharf; 16. Summer 1916, Two Playwrights; 17. A New Kind of Theatre; 18. Fire from Heaven on MacDougal Street; 19. "Here Pegasus Was Hitched,"; A photo gallery; 20. Inheritors; 21. The Verge and Beyond
- 22. The End of the Dream23. Picking Up the Pieces; 24. Novel Times; 25. Alison's House; 26. Break Up; 27. The Federal Theatre Project; 28. A Different War; 29. Completing the Circle; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-444) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780190283346
- 0190283343
- 9780197726334
- 019772633X
- 9781280454172
- 1280454172
- 9780195354096
- 0195354095
- 9781423720829
- 1423720822
- 9781602562059
- 1602562059
- OCLC:
- 476012464
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