The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 1996

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 1996

A modern Joan of Arc. (short story)
March 22, 1996... Ellen Glasgow's short story "A Modern. Joan. of Arc, " signed by Glasgow and pre served in manuscript in the Glasgow papers at the University of Virginia (Accession number 5060, 7225-a, Alderman Library), is published here for the first time. The...

Glasgow's Joan of Arc in context. (Ellen Glasgow)(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... In 1896, French illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel published a popular children's book, Jeanne d' Arc. The following year--the same one in which Ellen Glasgow published anonymously her first novel, The Descendant (1897)-Monvel's French...

Spinster's revenge: creating a child of one's own.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... "The power to create life is the staple of fiction." Ellen Glasgow(1) Ellen Glasgow's first two attempts to publish in the 1890s provided hard lessons in what it meant to be a woman writer in that period. When she arrived in New York from...

Memory and memoria in 'The Sheltered Life.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Shortly after the United States entered the First World War, Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) heard a famous man at a New York dinner party declare: "America needs this war!" "America might need it," she retorted, "but the South doesn't; it has had its...

Clothes make the mannequin: covering up the female body in 'The Sheltered Life.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Mrs. Birdsong walked buoyantly. The toque of violets on her bronze waves was poised at the correct angle; her puffed sleeves were held back, and her narrow waist was bent slightly; one slender hand, in white kid, grasped the...

"The wings of my comic spirit": comedy in 'The Sheltered Life.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... In her preface to the Sheltered Life, Ellen Glasgow includes herself in the "happy company of neglected novelists" who are "endowed with a comic spirit so robust, or so lively, that it can find diversion anywhere" and to whom "the ironic art of...

Ellen Glasgow's disability.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IN WHICH TWO ARTISTS record their personal responses to hearing impairment acquired in young adulthood: I could not prewail upon myself to say to men: speak louder, shout, for I am deaf. Oh, how could I...

The importance of seeking "Gerald." (Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Frances W. Saunders has performed an important service for readers who take Ellen Glasgow and her writing seriously. As a side product of biographies she has written on women whose lives overlapped Glasgow's, Saunders has uncovered an individual...

Ellen Glasgow, Henry Anderson, and 'The Romantic Comedians.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Ellen Glasgow's most significant relationship with a man outside her family was with Henry Watkins Anderson. It lasted longer than any other, from 1916 to her death. She confesses in The Woman Within that Barren Ground came out of the Anderson...

From Jordan's end to Frenchman's bend: Ellen Glasgow's short stories.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... One of the best things to happen to Ellen Glasgow was Henry Anderson. In her earlier fiction she had juxtaposed the virile self-made man and the effete aristocrat, her heroines usually giving their hearts to the former but marrying the latter....

Heroism and tragedy: the rise of the redneck in Glasgow's fiction.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Ellen Glasgow was an advocate of progress and a modern South where reality would tear away fantasy and science would bring economic benefits to the lives of impoverished people. At the same time, her ties to the romance of the Old South were...

"That abused word, modern" and Ellen Glasgow's "literature of revolt."(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... If we think of modernism as a struggle to make ourselves at home in a constantly changing world, we will realize that no mode of modernism can ever be definitive. -- Marshall Berman(1) In 1979, when Judith B. Wittenberg...

Glasgow's poetry: a critique of ideological illusion.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Decades of intellectual and artistic development intervene between "The Freeman" and Other Poems (1902),(1) which is the only book of poetry that Glasgow published, and The Woman Within (1954), first published nine sears after her death;(2)...

Dipolarity and narration in Glasgow's 'The Descendant.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
March 22, 1996... Approaching Ellen Glasgow's Descendant with great expectations is difficult given its critical reception from 1897 to today. Acknowledgment of the dramatic power of this novel was swamped in the year of its first appearance by charges of...