Maxwell Anderson and the Marriage Crisis: Challenging Tradition in the Jazz Age

by Fonzie D. Geary II

Book Overview

This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s. The four plays under consideration are White Desert (1923), Sea-Wife (1924), Saturday's Children (1927), and Gypsy (1929). These plays are largely forgotten and, even when the titles appear in Anderson scholarship, coverage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031132432
• ISBN13: 9783031132438
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"