Format:
Book
Title:
A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Elaine Showalter.
Author:
Showalter, Elaine.
Call Number:
810.9 Showalte
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Description:
xvii, 586 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
Subjects:
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography.
Women and literature -- United States -- History.
Women -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Women in literature.
Contents:
A new literature springs up in the new world -- Revolution : women's rights and women's writing -- Their native land -- Finding a form -- Masterpieces and mass markets -- Slavery, race, and women's writing -- The Civil War -- The coming woman -- American sibyls -- New women -- The golden morrow -- Against women's writing : Wharton and Cather -- You might as well live -- The Great Depression -- The 1940s : World War II and after -- The 1950s : the three faces of Eve -- The 1960s : live or die -- The 1970s : the will to change -- The 1980s : on the jury -- The 1990s : anything she wants.
ISBN:
9781400041237
1400041236