Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing how both classical allusions and ethnic folk myth liberated these writers and enabled them to understand and experience
Martha Carpentier shows how six novels by the modernist American writer Susan Glaspell speak to readers today, both in their focus on female sexuality and in their often subversive narrative form.
