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In Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women, Veronica Makowsky offers a rich reading of Glaspell's drama, and its depiction of American women. Providing a thematic overview of Glaspell's dramatic writing, Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women should play an important part in the current recovery and reinterpretation of Glaspell's work as a playwright. --W.B. Worthen, Northwestern University Veronica Makowsky's Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women provides a much-needed analysis of this lesser-known but fascinating American writer. Focusing primarily on Glaspell's fiction, Makowsky establishes her work within the contexts of Anglo-American feminism and the female literary tradition. With impressive economy and clarity, Makowsky presents strong thematic and biographical readings of novels which may now receive deserved, renewed critical and popular attention. --J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University A book to be read for its insights into the work and psyche of Glaspell and, by extension, into the minds and hearts of American women. --Christianity and Literature An excellent sourcebook...The author writes gracefully and interestingly about the implications of motherhood, both literal and symbolic, for a writer who had suffered a still-birth and several miscarriages. --Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Makowsky reads the full body of Glaspell's writing against salient circumstances of her personal life and larger socioeconomic, political, and cultural context. This approach richly illuminates the content of the work and Glaspell's deep ambivalence about her status as a woman and an artist....This book will make contemporary theatre scholars and practitioners want to examine Glaspell's novels not only for further illumination of the vision nascent in her Provincetown plays but for compelling insight into the struggles of pioneering creative women of her generation. --New England Theatre Journal In Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women, Veronica Makowsky offers a rich reading of Glaspell's drama, and its depiction of American women. Providing a thematic overview of Glaspell's dramatic writing, Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women should play an important part in the current recovery and reinterpretation of Glaspell's work as a playwright. --W.B. Worthen, Northwestern University Veronica Makowsky's Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women provides a much-needed analysis of this lesser-known but fascinating American writer. Focusing primarily on Glaspell's fiction, Makowsky establishes her work within the contexts of Anglo-American feminism and the female literary tradition. With impressive economy and clarity, Makowsky presents strong thematic and biographical readings of novels which may now receive deserved, renewed critical and popular attention. --J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University A book to be read for its insights into the work and psyche of Glaspell and, by extension, into the minds and hearts of American women. --Christianity and Literature An excellent sourcebook...The author writes gracefully and interestingly about the implications of motherhood, both literal and symbolic, for a writer who had suffered a still-birth and several miscarriages. --Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Makowsky reads the full body of Glaspell's writing against salient circumstances of her personal life and larger socioeconomic, political, and cultural context. This approach richly illuminates the content of the work and Glaspell's deep ambivalence about her status as a woman and an artist....This book will make contemporary theatre scholars and practitioners want to examine Glaspell's novels not only for further illumination of the vision nascent in her Provincetown plays but for compelling insight into the struggles of pioneering creative women of her generation. --New England Theatre Journal Veronica Makowsky's Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women is...an important milestone in Glaspell criticism....Makowsky presents in clear, lucid prose a chronological, critical overview of Glaspell's major works. --Theatre Journal

In Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women, Veronica Makowsky offers a rich reading of Glaspell's drama, and its depiction of American women. Providing a thematic overview of Glaspell's dramatic writing, Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women should play an important part in the current recovery and reinterpretation of Glaspell's work as a playwright. * W.B. Worthen, Northwestern University *

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