Title Boss ladies, watch out! : essays on women, sex, and writing / Terry Castle

Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 309 pages) : illustrations Contents Women and literary criticism -- On Northanger Abbey -- Austen's Emma -- Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho -- The gothic novel -- To the friends who did not save my life -- Was Jane Austen gay? -- Sublimely bad -- Resisting Casanova -- The juvenilia of Charlotte Brontë -- Shut up, sweet Charlotte -- Always the bridesmaid, never the groom -- Flournoy's complaint -- Pipe down back there! -- Very fine is my valentine -- If everybody had a wadley -- Night and day -- The will to whimsy -- Terror on the vineyard -- Yes, you, sweetheart Summary "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive and witty critics writing today." "The articles collected in Boss Ladies, Watch Out! constitute an extended meditation - both learned and personal - on just what it means to be a Female Critic. In the book's opening essays Castle examines how women became critics in the first place - scandalously at times - in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She explores in particular Jane Austen's "talismanic" role in the establishment of a female critical tradition. In the second part of the book, Castle embraces, with gusto, the role of Female Critic herself." "In lively reconsiderations of Sappho, Bronte, Cather, Colette, Gertrude Stein, and many other great women writers - "Boss Ladies" all - Castle pays a moving and civilized tribute to female genius and intellectual daring."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Authorship -- Sex differences Feminist literary criticism. Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- English-speaking countries Women in literature. Sex in literature. Feminist criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Feminist criticism Authorship -- Sex differences Feminism and literature Feminist literary criticism Sex in literature Women and literature Women in literature Frauenliteratur Literaturkritik Geschlechterforschung Letterkunde. Engels. Vrouwelijke auteurs. Litteraturvetenskap. Författare. Kvinnobilden. Förenta staterna. Storbritannien. Littérature anglaise -- Femmes écrivains. Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains. Critique féministe. Engelska kvinnliga författare. Amerikanska kvinnliga författare. Feministisk litteraturkritik. English-speaking countries Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002002728 ISBN 9781135225278 1135225273 9780203699027 0203699025 9780203953501 0203953509 9781135364403 1135364400 9781135364472 1135364478 9781135364540 1135364540 1135225281 9781135225285

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