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Elizabeth Spencer’s Complicated Cartographies

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230623392

ISBN: 978-1-349-38057-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 6, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction Backward Glances and Forward Thinking: Reconsidering Elizabeth Spencer

Seltzer, Catherine

Pages: 1 –14

[I first encountered Elizabeth Spencer’s work in a graduate seminar on southern literature. Her widely anthologized 1959 story “First Dark” was the last work we read in the course, and, to my mind, it functioned as an improbably tidy capstone for the semester that had preceded it: although a...
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Chapter 2“A Sure Terrain”: Spencer’s Mississippi Novels

Seltzer, Catherine

Pages: 15 –81

[The 2001 publication of The Southern Woman, the Modern Library’s collection of Elizabeth Spencer’s short fiction, has served to clarify Spencer’s legacy, drawing the reader’s attention to Spencer’s complex and independent female protagonists. Indeed, Spencer’s literary reputation has been...
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Chapter 3Exploding the Can(n)on: The Light in the Piazza

Seltzer, Catherine

Pages: 83 –110

[Taken as a whole, Elizabeth Spencer’s Mississippi novels trace her evolving struggle to situate her work within the existing southern literary canon. While each successive novel is stamped more deeply with Spencer’s characteristic subtlety and wit, each of the novels— Fire in the Morning (1948),...
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Chapter 4Inhabiting the Unhomely Moment in Jack of Diamonds and Other Stories

Seltzer, Catherine

Pages: 111 –149

[After the publication of The Light in the Piazza, Elizabeth Spencer did not abandon the South as either a setting or a central concern in her fiction; however, as she explained in a 1981 interview, her experiences in Italy led her to believe that “it would be exciting to be a roving spirit in...
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Chapter 5“Radical” Re-Envisionings of Home: The Night Travellers

Seltzer, Catherine

Pages: 151 –173

[In 1986, after more than thirty years abroad, Elizabeth Spencer returned to the South. She has explained in her memoir and interviews that the move was triggered in large part by her health; as Spencer approached her mid-60s, Montreal’s long winters were taking a measurable toll in the form of...

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