jury of her peers
Subtitle: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
By: by Elaine Showalter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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
Genres: Bio-bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new literature springs up in the new world; title: Revolution: women's rights and women's writing; title: Their native land; title: Finding a form; title: Masterpieces and mass markets; title: Slavery, race, and women's writing; title: The Civil War; title: The coming woman; title: American sibyls; title: New women; title: The golden morrow; title: Against women's writing: Wharton and Cather; title: You might as well live; title: The Great Depression; title: The 1940s: World War II and after; title: The 1950s: the three faces of Eve; title: The 1960s: live or die; title: The 1970s: the will to change; title: The 1980s: on the jury; title: The 1990s: anything she wants.