Boss ladies, watch out!

By Terry Castle

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

Description: "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.