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050 0 4 _aPS 147
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100 1 _aShowalter, Elaine.
245 1 2 _aA jury of her peers :
_bAmerican women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx /
_cby Elaine Showalter.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage,
_c2010.
300 _axvii, 586 p. :
_bport. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aOriginally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 2009.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [515]-562) and index.
505 0 _aA 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.
520 _aA narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xWomen authors
_vBio-bibliography.
650 0 _aWomen and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen
_zUnited States
_xIntellectual life.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
999 _c129010
_d129010