Knopf
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DR. ELAINE SHOWALTER
assembles
A Jury of Her Peers:
American Women Writers
from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Harvard Book Store is pleased to present feminist critic Dr. Elaine Showalter, Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton, for a discussion of her new book, A Jury of Her Peers, the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. “It seems incredible that–until now–no history of American women writers should have been available. Professor Showalter has undertaken an immense task and produced a wonderful book, one which deserves to become a literary landmark. Witty, erudite, thoughtful, and stylish, A Jury of Her Peers is deeply researched, beautifully structured, and compellingly narrated.”
–Miranda Seymour (Thrumpton Hall)
“A masterful achievement. Thorough yet concise, learned yet lively and entertaining, Elaine Showalter’s literary history gives us brilliant accounts of the lives and works of America’s women writers, many of whom she has recovered from near literary oblivion. Her passion for her subjects and her always stimulating opinions will engage many readers, from the first provocative paragraphs about the origin of Susan Glaspell’s story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” to the final discussion of Annie Proulx’s antiheroic rodeo stories. This is a remarkable book, one that deserves to become a classic.” –Emory Elliot, General Editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States
“Only Elaine Showalter, our foremost feminist critic, could give us this extraordinary and endlessly intriguing book. It is at once magisterial and delicate, comprehensive and richly detailed, critically acute yet generous. She tells stories of art being made from–and sometimes in spite of–love, marriage, loneliness, housework, politics, motherhood, and hardship. Yet always the writing itself is at the center, as Showalter stakes out the tradition’s common ground and illuminates its most startling and stunning creations.” –Christine Stansell (American Moderns: New York Bohemia and the Creation of a New Century)
“A landmark of discovery, synthesis, and acute judgment, A Jury of Her Peers will stand as the defining account of American women’s writing for many years to come.” –Eric J. Sundquist, University of California Los Angeles
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Dr. Elaine Showalter is professor emerita of English and Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of California at Davis, she is the author or editor of eighteen books, including A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, and Alternative Alcott. Dr. Showalter has chaired the Man Booker International prize jury and judged the National Book Awards and the Orange Prize.
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