A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Book |
First edition |
Alfred A. Knopf,
New York :
2009.
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About
Details
- ISBN: 9781400041237 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xvii, 586 pages ; 24 cm.print
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.