Susan Keating Glaspell, The Morning is Near Us

Martha Carpentier (Seton Hall University)

Ed. by Noelia Hernando-Real, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1940

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The Morning is Near Us is Susan Glaspell’s seventh novel. Best known for her work as a playwright with the Provincetown Players during the years 1915-1924, Glaspell was, in addition, a well-known and critically acclaimed novelist for the first four decades of the twentieth century. The Morning is Near Us was a Literary Guild Book of the Month choice for April 1940 and sold more than 107,500 copies in its first month of publication. It also led to a lucrative film contract for Glaspell from Columbia Pictures, although in the end it was never produced.
A “concoction of equal parts Gothic horror story, Greek tragedy, and midwestern mystery”, as Linda Ben-Zvi describes it, The Morning is Near Us<…

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Citation: Carpentier, Martha. "The Morning is Near Us". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 October 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16010, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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