Judd Rankin's Daughter (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Philosophy or philosophers, Socialism, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Midwest, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Conservatism, Death or dying, Idealism, Soldiers, Iowa
- Locales: Iowa
Judd Rankin's Daughter was the last of Glaspell's nine novels. The final three—The Morning Is Near Us (1940), Norma Ashe (1942), and Judd Rankin's Daughter—were written close together; each of the three features a memorable heroine seeking to rediscover her midwestern heritage in order to better understand the present. In the first two of these books, the protagonists must struggle through the corruption and dissipation of their early idealism to a gradual reawakening in themselves. Judd Rankin's Daughter, which is not representative of most of...
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