TY  - BOOK
AU  - Showalter,Elaine
TI  - A jury of her peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx 
SN  - 9781400034420
AV  - PS 147  .S46 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage
KW  - American literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bio-bibliography
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Women in literature
N1  - 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
N2  - A narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known
ER  -