"Susan Glaspell in Context provides accessible, informative essays on this Pulitzer Prize winner's life, works, career, and ongoing impact. Covering Glaspell's fiction, plays, and non-fiction, and analyses of previously unknown short stories, the collection offers approaches of interest to students, scholars, teachers, and artists alike"--

Part I. Susan Glaspell's Early Writing and Her Midwestern Contexts: 1. Susan Glaspell: a rebel against the chains that bind Barbara Ozieblo; 2. The Midwest in American culture Marcia Noe; 3. Women in American journalism Jerry Dickey; 4. Glaspell's short fiction and magazine culture Jennifer J. Smith; 5. Glaspell's recovered early fiction: on her six 'New' short stories; 6. 'Jig' Cook and the Philosophical Tradition Mike Solomonson; 7. Susan Glaspell and the Chicago renaissance Stuart J. Hecht; 8.The Hossack murder and the genesis of trifles/'a jury of her peers' Patricia l. Bryan; 9. Beyond writing: Susan Glaspell and the federal theatre project Elizabeth A. Osborne; Part II. The Bohemian Context: Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and The Rise of American Modernism: 10. Glaspell among the village people Christoph Irmscher; 11. Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown players Brenda Murphy; 12. Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill Jeffery Kennedy; 13. The little theatre movement in the United States Dorothy Chansky; 14. Susan Glaspell modernist playwright Linda Ben-Zvi; 15. Susan Glaspell and the modernist novel Martha C. Carpentier; Part III. Susan Glaspell and American Culture and Politics: 16. Susan Glaspell's challenges to nativist discourse Sharon Friedman; 17. Glaspell after Darwin Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 18. Glaspell and American education Michael Winetsky; 19. Susan Glaspell and sex J. Ellen Gainor; Part IV. Susan Glaspell, Women Artists, and Feminist History and Criticism: 20. Susan Glaspell, the Provincetown players, and Greenwich village feminism Cheryl Black; 21. Setting the pattern: 'constrained' feminism in Glaspell's early novels Veronica Makowsky; 22. Susan Glaspell and Emily Dickinson Noelia Hernando-Real; 23. The feminist rediscovery of Susan Glaspell Mary E. Papke; 24. Trifles, 'Jury,' and feminist legal criticism Sara Schotland; Part V. Susan Glaspell in Broader Geographical Contexts: 25. Susan Glaspell in Greece: self and service Drew Eisenhauer; 26. Glaspell's dramas in England: early production, publication, and reception Katharine Cockin; 27. Glaspell in translation Emeline Jouve; Part VI. Susan Glaspell on Stage and Screen: 28. Renovation and transformation: Adapting the writing of Susan Glaspell Milbre Burch; 29. Making an independent film of 'A Jury of Her Peers' in the 1970s Sally Heckel; 30. Teaching trifles in the writing room Aoise Stratford; 31. Susan Glaspell in performance: a curated conversation with directors Sam Walters, Auriol Smith, Alex Roe, Meg Roe, Alice Reagan, Jonathan Bank, Barbara Ozieblo and J. Ellen Gainor.