A jury of her peers, American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, Elaine Showalter
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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
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A jury of her peers
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: 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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