A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / by Elaine Showalter.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 586 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781400041237
- 1400041236
- PS147 .S46 2009
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Includes bibliographical references 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.