Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita at Princeton University, is the author of numerous books, including the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. A frequent radio and TV commentator in the United Kingdom, she has chaired the Man Booker International prize jury and judged the National Book Awards and the Orange Prize. She divides her time between Washington, D.C., and London.
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A Jury of Her Peers
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-1-4000-3442-0 (1-4000-3442-6)
January 12, 2010 | $21.00
An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early...
Written by Elaine Showalter
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-1-4000-3442-0 (1-4000-3442-6)
January 12, 2010 | $21.00
An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early...
Expensive People
eBook | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49536-5 (0-307-49536-1)
April 22, 2009 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...
eBook | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49536-5 (0-307-49536-1)
April 22, 2009 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...
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A Garden of Earthly Delights
eBook | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-52575-8 (0-307-52575-9)
March 25, 2009 | $17.99
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...
eBook | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-52575-8 (0-307-52575-9)
March 25, 2009 | $17.99
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Hardcover | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-1-4000-4123-7 (1-4000-4123-6)
February 24, 2009 | $34.00
A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and...
Written by Elaine Showalter
Hardcover | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-1-4000-4123-7 (1-4000-4123-6)
February 24, 2009 | $34.00
A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
eBook | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors
978-0-307-27145-7 (0-307-27145-5)
February 24, 2009 | $37.00
A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and...
Written by Elaine Showalter
eBook | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors
978-0-307-27145-7 (0-307-27145-5)
February 24, 2009 | $37.00
A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Expensive People
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7654-0 (0-8129-7654-1)
September 12, 2006 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7654-0 (0-8129-7654-1)
September 12, 2006 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by...
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them
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-345-48440-6 (0-345-48440-1)
September 12, 2006 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums...
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-345-48440-6 (0-345-48440-1)
September 12, 2006 | $18.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Wonderland
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7655-7 (0-8129-7655-X)
September 12, 2006 | $21.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his...
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7655-7 (0-8129-7655-X)
September 12, 2006 | $21.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his...
A Garden of Earthly Delights
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-6834-7 (0-8129-6834-4)
April 22, 2003 | $17.99
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-6834-7 (0-8129-6834-4)
April 22, 2003 | $17.99
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...
Also available as an
eBook.
