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Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 304
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- Publisher: University Alabama Press
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- ISBN: 0817310800
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 6.03 x 0.79 x 9.01
- Shipping Weight: 0.91
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Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism Review
Source: Product DescriptionThis timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. This collection springs from a series of associated questions regarding the literary and theatrical heritage of the southern woman playwright, the unique ways in which southern women have approached the conventional modes of comedy and tragedy, and the ways in which the South, its types and stereotypes, its peculiarities, its traditions-both literary and cultural-figure in these women's plays. Especially relevant to these questions are essays on Lillian Hellman, who resisted the label "southern writer," and Carson McCullers, who never attempted to ignore her southernness. This book begins by recovering little-known or unknown episodes in the history of southern drama and by examining the ways plays assumed importance in the lives of southern women in the early 20th century. It concludes with a look at one of the most vibrant, diverse theatre scenes outside New York today-Atlanta. Robert L. McDonald is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Military Institute and editor of The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell. Linda Rohrer Paige is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University.
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