While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and several of their shorter works. Unlike comparable writers of their time, theirs was a nonpolemical but nonetheless political art in which disruption of the rules of masculine/feminine discourse and the hegemonic world view are deeply but obviously embedded within...
While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on ...
Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for "Alison's House" (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. Her plays were compared, often favorably, with O'Neill's. After a period of eclipse, Glaspell's concern with woman's desire for selfhood brought her plays to the attention of feminist scholarship beginning in the 1970s. Mary Papke argues in this work for a reassessment of Glaspell as a major American playwright. This sourcebook begins with a bio-critical survey and includes plot summaries for...
Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for "Alison's House" (1930) and was al...
American literary naturalism both seduces and repulses the reader, disrupting stable notions of individual and moral coherence. Usually associated with works such as Frank Norris s McTeague and Stephen Crane s The Open Boat, naturalism draws on nineteenth-century theories of hereditary and environmental determinism, emphasizing the role of chance in characters struggles for survival in an increasingly industrial, capitalistic, urban jungle. The essays in this volume revise the canon of naturalism, looking beyond the classic period of the 1890s to uncover naturalistic tendencies already at...
American literary naturalism both seduces and repulses the reader, disrupting stable notions of individual and moral coherence. Usually associated wit...
