Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A jury of her peers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

229028053

Responsibility statement

Elaine Showalter

Sub title

American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

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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