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Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet To Annie Proulx (09 Edition)by Elaine Showalter
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Publisher Comments:A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascinationbrimming with Elaine Showalters characteristic wit and incisive opinionswe are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and expected names (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery OConnor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult among them), but also many who were once successful and acclaimed yet now are little known, from the early American best-selling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter shows how these writersboth the enduring stars and the ones left behind by the canonwere connected to one another and to their times. She believes it is high time to fully integrate the contributions of women into our American literary heritage, and she undertakes the task with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place. Whether or not readers agree with the books roster of writers, A Jury of Her Peers is an irresistible invitation to join the debate, to discover long-lost great writers, and to return to familiar titles with a deeper appreciation. It is a monumental work that will greatly enrich our understanding of American literary history and culture. From the Hardcover edition. Synopsis:In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
Synopsis:An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place. About the AuthorElaine Showalter, a professor emerita at Princeton University, is the author of numerous books, including the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. A frequent radio and TV commentator in the United Kingdom, she has chaired the Man Booker International prize jury and judged the National Book Awards and the Orange Prize. She divides her time between Washington, D.C., and London.
From the Hardcover edition. Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. A New Literature Springs Up in the New World 2. Revolution: Women’s Rights and Women’s Writing 3. Their Native Land 4. Finding a Form 5. Masterpieces and Mass Markets 6. Slavery, Race, and Women’s Writing 7. The Civil War 8. The Coming Woman 9. American Sibyls 10. New Women 11. The Golden Morrow 12. Against Women’s Writing: Wharton and Cather 13. You Might as Well Live 14. The Great Depression 15. The 1940s: World War II and After 16. The 1950s: Three Faces of Eve 17. The 1960s: Live or Die 18. The 1970s: The Will to Change 19. The 1980s: On the Jury 20. The 1990s: Anything She Wants Acknowledgments Notes Index Writers Discussed in the Book Introduction Susan Glaspell Lydia Maria Child Catherine Fenimore Woolson Mary Austin Zona Gale Elizabeth Roberts Julia Ward Howe Pauline Hopkins Nella Larsen Emily Dickinson Harriet Beecher Stowe Gwendolyn Brooks Edith Wharton Willa Cather Chapter 1: The 1600s Anne Bradstreet Mary Rowlandson Chapter 2: The 1700s Sarah Kemble Knight Jane Coleman Turell Elizabeth Magawley Phillis Wheatley Judith Sargent Murray Mercy Otis Warren Susanna Rowson Anna Steele Anna Young Smith Sarah Wentworth Morton Abigail Adams Sukey Vickery Hannah Webster Foster Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood Tabitha Tenney Chapter 3: 1820s-1830s Lydia Maria Child Sarah J. Hale Mary Griffin Catherine Maria Sedgwick Caroline Kirkland Chapter 4: 1840s Margaret Fuller Caroline May Alice Cary Frances Sargent Osgood Maria Gowen Brooks Elizabeth Oakes-Smith Lydia HuntleySigourney Anna Cora Mowatt Harriet Beecher Stowe Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chapter 5: 1850s, Part I Julia Ward Howe Harriet Beecher Stowe Miriam Berry Whicher Susan Warner Grace Greenwood Hannah Gardner Creamer Caroline Chesebro’ Anna Warner Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Caroline Hentz E.D.E.N. Southworth “Fanny Fern” (Sarah Peyton Willis) Laura Curtis Bullard Lillie Devereaux Blake Alice Cary H. Marion Stephenson Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune Augusta Jane Evans Harriet Prescott Spofford Chapter 6: 1850s, Part II Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary Eastman Caroline Hentz Frances Watkins Harper Lydia Maria Child Harriet Jacobs Harriet E. Wilson “Hannah Crafts” Chapter 7: The Civil War Harriet Beecher Stowe Lucy Larcom Caroline A. Mason Julia LeGrand Louisa May Alcott E.D.E.N. Southworth Augusta Jane Evans Rebecca Harding Davis Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard Emily Dickinson Mary Terhune Martha Finley Mary Abigail Dodge Chapter 8: The 1870s Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Julia Ward Howe Harriet Beecher Stowe Gail Hamilton Alice Cary Marietta Holley Susan B. Anthony Lillie Devereaux Blake Sherwood Bonner Chapter 9: The 1880s Constance Fenimore Woolson Harriet Beecher Stowe Emma Lazarus Rose Terry Cooke Sarah Orne Jewett Willa Cather Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Mary Noailles Murfree Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson Chapter 10: The 1890s Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gertrude Atherton Kate Chopin Elizabeth Cady Stanton Louise Imogen Guiney Ella Wheeler Wilcox Elizabeth Robins Edith Wharton Frances Harper Pauline Hopkins Eveleen Mason Lois Waisbrooker Alice Ilgenfritz Jones Ella Merchant Eliza J. Nicholson Elizabeth Gilmer Julia Ward Howe Maud Howe Grace King Louisa May Alcott Alice Dunbar-Nelson Helen Hunt Jackson Mary Wilkins Freeman Ellen Glasgow Helen Gray Cone Chapter 11: The 1900s Margaret Fuller Mary Johnston Charlotte Perkins Gilman Francis Whiting Halsey Edith Wharton Gertrude Atherton Mary Hunter Austin Gertrude Stein Hilda Doolittle Marianne Moore Amy Lowell Mary Antin Gertrude Simmons Bonnin Edith Maud Easton Elizabeth Robins Rachel Crothers Susan Glaspell Kate Chopin Willa Cather Kate Douglas Wiggin Geneva Stratton-Porter Jean Webster Eleanor H. Porter Chapter 12: The 1910s Edith Wharton Willa Cather Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe Kate Chopin Chapter 13: The 1920s Sylvia Plath Gwendolyn Brooks Josephine Herbst Ellen Glasgow Elizabeth Madox Roberts Edith Summers Kelley Edna St. Vincent Millay Gertrude Stein Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Elinor Wylie Amy Lowell Genevieve Taggard Dorothy Parker Louise Bogan Sara Teasdale Louisa May Alcott Genevieve Taggard Mina Loy Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Nella Larsen Josephine Herbst Katherine Anne Porter Sophie Treadwell Zoe Akins Zona Gale Dorothy Canfield Fisher Pearl Buck Willa Cather Anzia Yezierska Emily Dickinson Jessie Fauset Kate Chopin Chapter 14: The 1930s Meridel Le Sueur Susan Glaspell Willa Cather Emily Dickinson Fanny Hurst Katherine Anne Porter Zoe Akins Dorothy Parker Tess Slesinger Lillian Hellman Clare Boothe Pearl Buck Margaret Mitchell Edith Wharton Jessie Fauset Nella Larsen Margaret Walker Muriel Rukeyser Sara Teasdale Edna St. Vincent Millay Martha Gellhorn Josephine Herbst Tillie Olsen Louise Bogan Djuna Barnes Susan Sontag Harriet Sohmers Mary Wilkins Freeman Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 15: The 1940s Louise Bogan Jane Cooper Margaret Walker Gwendolyn Brooks Sylvia Plath Alice Bradley Sheldon Martha Gellhorn Hisaye Yamamoto Eudora Welty Carson McCullers Flannery O’Connor Katherine Anne Porter Agnes Smedley Jean Stafford Margaret Walker Harper Lee Ann Petry Dorothy West Sally Benson Ayn Rand Betty Smith Betty Macdonald Jessamyn West Laura Z. Hobson Kathleen Winsor Fay Kanin Edna St. Vincent Millay Chapter 16: The 1950s Carson McCullers Shirley Jackson Sylvia Plath Gwendolyn Brooks Flannery O’Connor Adrienne Rich Joyce Carol Oates Kathleen Norris Fannie Hurst Jessie Fauset Nella Larsen Harriette Simpson Arnow Mary McCarthy Jean Stafford Grace Metalious Leonie Adams Babette Deutsch Muriel Rukeyser May Swenson Mona Van Duyn Jean Garrigue Barbara Howe Anne Sexton Marianne Moore Louise Bogan Elizabeth Bishop Patricia Highsmith Ann Weldy Lorraine Hansberry Chapter 17: The 1960s Gwendolyn Brooks Anne Sexton Denise Levertov Muriel Rukeyser Harper Lee Katherine Anne Porter Mary McCarthy Louise Bogan Joyce Carol Oates S. E. Hinton Adrienne Rich Maxine Kumin Tillie Olsen Sara Teasdale Edna St. Vincent Millay Betty Friedan Sarah Orne Jewett Jean Stafford Chapter 18: The 1970s Adrienne Rich Michelle Cliff Kate Millet Robin Morgan Shulamith Firestone Toni Cade Bambara Charlotte Perkins Gilman Toni Morrison Erica Jong Nikki Giovanni Maya Angelou Audre Lord Ntozake Shange Alice Walker Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Diane Johnson Gail Godwin Judith Rossner Lois Gould Joyce Carol Oates Dorothy Bryant Ursula LeGuin Joanna Russ Marge Piercy James Tiptree, Jr./ Alice Bradley Sheldon Willa Cather Vonda N. McIntyre Chelsea Quinn Yarboro Joanna Russ Grace Paley Maxine Hong Kingston Anne Tyler Joan Didion Susan Sontag Cynthia Ozick Chapter 19: The 1980s Sharon Olds Alice Walker Phillis Wheatley Joyce Carol Oates Elizabeth Bishop Cynthia Ozick Ursula LeGuin Beth Henley Marsha Norman Wendy Wasserstein Sara Paretsky Sue Grafton Patricia Cornwell Toni Morrison Louise Erdrich Alice Walker Marilynne Robinson Gloria Naylor Sandra Cisneros Amy Tan Amy Hempel Bharati Mukherjee Mary Robison Jayne Anne Phillips Ann Beattie Bobbie Ann Mason Gloria Naylor Chapter 20: The 1990s Toni Morrison Lynn Hejinian Marilyn Hacker Sharon Olds Louise Glück Anne Carson Jorie Graham Rita Dove Jodie Picoult Jennifer Weiner Terry McMillan Susannah Moore A. M. Homes Joyce Carol Oates Susan Sontag Susan Choi Wendy Wasserstein Joanne Dobson Gish Jen Jane Smiley Harriet Beecher Stowe Sena Jeter Naslund Annie Proulx Anne Bradstreet Mary Rowlandson What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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