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02121aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 5B874D0C28FB11E49E7A85DBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140821010440 008 090513r20102009nyuc b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1400034426 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781400034420 (pbk.) : 035 $a (OCoLC)326529229 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OOY $d DEBBG $d BDX $d NSB $d SILO 050 04 $a PS147 $b .S46 2010 082 04 $a 810.9/9287 $2 22 082 04 $a 809/.89287 $2 22 084 $a HR 1110 $2 rvk 100 1 $a Showalter, Elaine. 245 12 $a A jury of her peers : $b American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / $c by Elaine Showalter. 260 $a New York : $b Vintage, $c 2010. 300 $a xvii, 586 p. : $b port. ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 2009. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-562) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a A narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x Women authors $v Bio-bibliography. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Women $z United States $x Intellectual life. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204054504.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110040336.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B874D0C28FB11E49E7A85DBDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search