Judd Rankin’s Daughter (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- First Published: 1945
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age
The Work
Susan Glaspell’s last novel, Judd Rankin’s Daughter, is concerned with social advancement and humankind’s potential for greater awareness. Glaspell, who was born and educated in Iowa, illustrates the regional conflict of midwestern conservatism and the more radical political philosophies of New England, particularly Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Glaspell lived and where the novel is set.
The work contains four character sketches that feature people in conflict with societal or ideological values. The central figure, Francis Rankin Mitchell, is...
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