Susan Keating Glaspell, The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love

Michael Winetsky (York College, CUNY)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1909

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The Glory of the Conquered, The Story of a Great Love is Susan Glaspell’s first novel. Published in 1909, the novel brims with the optimism of the Progressive Era. The “great love” mentioned in the novel’s subtitle refers not only to the marriage of the central characters, Ernestine Stanley and Dr. Karl Hubers, but also, on the level of allegory, to a marriage of art and science: Ernestine is a promising young painter, one of her pictures having received acclaim when exhibited in a Paris salon, while Karl is a brilliant medical researcher on the faculty of the University of Chicago; he is expected to cure cancer. As much as the couple’s romance is idealized, so are their respective professions, which are regarded alongside all forms of work (some of which are represented by the…

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Citation: Winetsky, Michael. "The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 February 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15988, accessed 29 April 2024.]

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