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A jury of her peers American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

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.

Main Author: Showalter, Elaine.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
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.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
Table of 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.

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