Glaspell, Susan - Arthur E. Waterman (essay date 1966)
Arthur E. Waterman (essay date 1966)
[ Waterman is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt from his book Susan Glaspell, he examines Glaspell's early novels The Glory of the Conquered, The Visioning, and Fidelity.]
During the years in which she was writing her short stories [Susan] Glaspell was also writing novels, and she published three between 1909 and 1915. In these longer works she moved beyond the restricted local-color tradition to the larger and more significant movement called "regionalism." The turn to the longer form of the novel meant that she would have to develop different techniques, more complicated plots, larger characters, and, most importantly, she would have to come to terms with her region, to move beyond the oversimplified attitude she held in most of her short stories. She had to see the Midwest as more than a locale, as more than a pleasant place where problems could be neatly resolved by a...
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