 |  | | | Elaine Showalter | 14 May 2009 | | |
A history of American women writers
Elaine Showalter is one of the most respected critics of her generation. She set the agenda for feminist literary criticism back in the early 1980s. She’s now written the first full literary history of American women writers, from 1650 to the present day. From Harriet Beecher Stowe to Dorothy Parker to Toni Morrison, she ranges over the leading female voices of American letters. But, she also introduces us to those we’ve overlooked. Jenni talks to Elaine Showalter about her attempt to make us re-read the familiar classics, and rediscover other forgotten women writers.
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter is published by Virago, ISBN-13: 978-1844080786
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