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Author:

Showalter, Elaine.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Vintage,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xvii, 586 p. : port. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--Bio-bibliography.
Women and literature--United States--History.
Women--United States--Intellectual life.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-562) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1400034426 (pbk.)
9781400034420 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)326529229

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)