American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Showalter, Elaine
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, schrijvers, canons, zwarte schrijvers, lesbische schrijvers, slavernij, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book is the history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. Showalter introduces more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and expected names (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison among them), but also many who were once successful and acclaimed yet now are little known, from the early American best-selling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter shows how these writers—both the enduring stars and the ones left behind by the canon—were connected to one another and to their times. She believes it is time to fully integrate the contributions of women into the American literary heritage.