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

Author: Showalter, Elaine.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

ISBN: 9781400041237 (cloth)
1400041236 (cloth)

Description: xvii, 586 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject: 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.

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.