A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / by Elaine Showalter.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage, 2010.Description: xvii, 586 p. : port. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781400034420
  • 1400034426
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 147  .S46 2010
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: 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.
Summary: A narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
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Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-562) and index.

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: 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.

A narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.

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