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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
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Description for A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Paperback. * Elaine Showalter, author of the classic A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN has written 'The first comprehensive overview of the achievement of American women writers .. A daunting task, and few could carry it off with such aplomb' Sarah Churchwell, Guardian Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 46. Weight in Grams: 554.
Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult. And also many successful and acclaimed yet little-known writers, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell.
A JURY OF HER PEERS is an irresistible invitation to discover great authors never before encountered and to return to familiar books with a deeper appreciation. It is a monumental work ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844080809
SKU
V9781844080809
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About Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. From 1967 to 1984 she taught English and Women's Studies at Rutgers University, and she now chairs the department of English at Princeton University.
Reviews for A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
In the realm of spectacular literary scholarship and criticism there has been nothing to approach Elaine Showalter's magisterial A Jury Of Her Peers. Showalter is the ideal guide through this maze-like landscape: she is sympathetic, informed, canny and at times very funny - as in her commentary on Gertrude Stein. This is the most imaginative and brilliantly executed book of ... Read more