Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita of literature at Princeton University, discusses and signs her new anthology, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, at Politics and Prose, Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita of literature at Princeton University, discusses and signs her new anthology, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, at Politics and Prose, Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

In her unprecedented literary landmark, Princeton Professor Emeritus Elaine Showalter offers the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, we are introduced to more than 250 writers. These include not only famous and expected ... (more)names (Willa Cather, Flannery O’Conner, and Toni Morrison among them), but also many who were once successful yet now are little known. Showalter shows how these writers, both those who have endured and those left behind by the canon, are connected to one another and to their times. Joyce Carol Oates says, “A Jury of Her Peers is a work of astonishing vision, breadth, intelligence, and audacity. Elaine Showalter, long recognized as our preeminent feminist scholar-critic, whose prose shimmers with wickedly funny asides, has produced the most ambitious and brilliantly executed book of her career.”

Professor Elaine Showalter will talk about ‘The Home-maker and the Home-Wrecker: Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Susan Glaspell, and 20th Century American Women Writers’. Her new book about American women writers will be published in 2009. To book for the Persephone Lecture, please ring Persephone Books ... (more)... (more)on 0207 242 9292. The Lecture costs £20.