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A Jury Of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet To Annie Proulx (2009)

by Elaine Showalter(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1400041236 (ISBN13: 9781400041237)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: Fabulous pull-together of women writing in the United States. Showalter is admirably evenhanded throughout, never shying away from literary criticism for the sake of the Sisterhood of Lady Writers (though in one small lapse it's pretty clear she's no Gertrude Stein fan...not being one especially myself it didn't particularly bother me). It's hard to imagine that anyone would be familiar with every name in the book either, so I found it a gold mine of new selections for my to-read list as well.
review 2: I've come to the conclusion that some books try to render a history of a subject but only render a survey. There is great breadth, but not enough depth here. Showalter is such a noted critic that I expected more. She is obviously very knowledgeable and well r... moreead, but in an effort to write something about just about every woman who wrote, from Bradstreet to Proulx, she really does a "gallop" through the ages. And her handling of 20th-century authors by decade instead of by authors' oeuvres is especially choppy. Three stars only in deference to the hours that she had to put into this project. less

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