Brief Reviews

Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell. By Noelia Hernando-Real. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2011. 204 pp. Paper, $55.00. A solid introduction to the career of the so-called “mother of American drama” that underscores the importance of place or setting in Glaspell’s theatrical writings. (GS)

Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker. By William Scott. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2012. 284 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $24.95. Despite the reiteration of the “race, class, gender” mantra over the past generation, the literature of the period 1890 to 1930 has rarely been seriously analyzed according to class markers. This volume begins to repair this relative neglect with particular reference to such novels as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Jack London’s The Iron Heel, and Robert Cantwell’s The Land of Plenty. (GS)