A Jury Of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter
* Elaine Showalter, author of the classic A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN, now turns to her own heritage, bringing us an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present
In the realm of spectacular literary scholarship and criticism there has been nothing to approach Elaine Showalter's magisterial A Jury Of Her PeersShowalter 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 Showalter's fearless career * Joyce Carol Oates, Guardian, Books of the Year *
A superb literary survey * Sunday Times *
The first comprehensive overview of the achievement of American women writers . . . A daunting task, and few could carry it off with such aplomb . . . She magisterially offers judicious assessment, adroit synopsis and astonishing breadth and range of reference * Sarah Churchwell, Guardian *
An authoritative study of American female literary production . . . A woman writer's female peers can best understand and judge her words - and Showalter is your woman. There is no other critic who could produce such a clear, seamless history of women's * Helen Taylor, Independent *
A superb literary survey * Sunday Times *
The first comprehensive overview of the achievement of American women writers . . . A daunting task, and few could carry it off with such aplomb . . . She magisterially offers judicious assessment, adroit synopsis and astonishing breadth and range of reference * Sarah Churchwell, Guardian *
An authoritative study of American female literary production . . . A woman writer's female peers can best understand and judge her words - and Showalter is your woman. There is no other critic who could produce such a clear, seamless history of women's * Helen Taylor, Independent *
Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita at Princeton, is the author of numerous books. A frequent radio and TV commentator, she has also chaired the Man Booker International Prize jury.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844080786 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844080781 |
| Title | A Jury Of Her Peers |
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
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