Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing (Clarendon Lectures)

By Elaine Showalter

Book Overview

When Elaine Showalter's study of English women writers, A Literature of Their Own, appeared in 1977, Patricia M. Spacks hailed it in The New York Times Book Review as "provocative....thoughtfully... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198123833
• ISBN13: 9780198123835
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.6" x 0.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Imaginative Treatment of Some Understudied Pieces

As a grad student in Folklore and Folklife, I discovered this book during a research project on community cookbooks, of all things, and found its interpretations of literature relating to quilts applicable to my concentration in needlework. Without a background in literature, I was eager to read some of the pieces discussed in the various chapters, particularly "A Jury of her Peers." The book is written in a style that is appropriate for a general audience, and would be a wonderful addition to the library of anyone interested in American literature, women's studies, or material culture. I was so constantly fighting over the book by recalling it from other students through the University's library that I've decided to invest in my own copy and stop hogging the library's copy. It will definitely be used plenty in my academic program.