Boss ladies, watch out!

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Theory,  History and criticism,  Women authors,  Feminism and literature,  English literature,  American literature,  Feminist literary criticism,  Women and literature,  Authorship,  Sex differences,  Sex in literature,  Women in literature,  English literature, history and criticism,  American literature, history and criticism,  Authorship, sex differences,  English literature, women authors,  New York Times reviewed,  Feminist criticism,  Écrits de femmes anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Théorie,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Art d'écrire,  Différences entre sexes,  Critique féministe,  Femmes et littérature,  Femmes dans la littérature,  Sexualité dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Frauenliteratur,  Literaturkritik,  Geschlechterforschung,  Letterkunde,  Engels,  Vrouwelijke auteurs,  Litteraturvetenskap,  Författare,  Kvinnobilden,  Förenta staterna,  Storbritannien,  Littérature anglaise,  Femmes écrivains,  Littérature américaine,  Engelska kvinnliga författare,  Amerikanska kvinnliga författare,  Feministisk litteraturkritik

Places: English-speaking countries