Emeline Jouve, Susan Glaspell’s Poetics and Politics of Rebellion

“[T]he different elements in your book must not be detached things, but thread held together, as a weaving pattern” (44) : this quote by Susan Glaspell is taken to heart by Emeline Jouve, who offers a tightly woven “comprehensive analysis of the dramatist’s work, from the perspective of rebellion” (12). The choice to devote an entire monograph to Glaspell, a long neglected dramatist, “relegated to the margins of literary history” and “marginaliz[ed] from the canon” (10), constitutes in itself...