Boss Ladies, Watch Out!
Essays on Women, Sex and Writing
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 23 August 2002
- ISBN 9780415938747
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 620 g
- Language English 0
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.
"Castle's immersion in great 18th and 19th century writers such as Samuel Richardsom, Austen and the Brontes has clearly sharpened her own critical faculties and contributed more than a little to her engaging style and elan...a scintillating collection of essays." -- Los Angeles Times
"Castle distinguishes herself with her even-keeled approach...[she] is no pushover when it comes to taking authors to task; she wields a formidable pen indeed. But it's clear that she criticizes because she cares--she wants female writers and artists and critics to be taken seriously. One of the biggest delights in this collection is Castle's keen sense of style, no small feat for a writer working in the academic world. In stark contrast to the wordier-than-thou poststructuralist approaches that seem to dominate her field, Castle's style is gleeful, fair, and erudite without being mired in plodding academic prose. She's more interested in engaging a text than she is in posturing. Cheers to Terry Castle for making literary criticism fun again." -- Bitch
"Castle, a Stanford professor and the author of five books, tackles the Boss Lady problem with great insight and no lack of humor. These essays. many of which originally appeared in the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, reveal Castle to be a master of the review-article genre. They provide lucid, rigorous assessments of the authors' successes and failures, but also illuminating descriptions of their subjects' lives." -- Bitch
"Is anyone as smart as Terry Castle? I sincerely doubt it! Boss Ladies will appeal to the intellectuals among us who are looking for a bit of brain stimulation." -- Rachel Pepper, Curve
"The truth is outrageous: that's a principle Terry Castle has proved. She is as sound as she is scandalous. Any educated person can read her essays with profit and pleasure--and with a jaw that is permanently dropped." -- Edmund White
"Brave, learned, sassy, wildly funny, Terry Castle knows heaps about people (and lives) as well as about literature in English. Her writing is full of feeling and wisdom. She's not only our best Female Literary Critic and One Wise Babe. She's the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." -- Susan Sontag
Table of Contents:
Introduction Acknowledgments Part I 1. Women and Literary Criticism 2. On Northanger Abbey 3. Austen's Emma Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho 5. The Gothic Novel 6. To the Friends Who Did Not Save My Life Part II 1. Was Jane Austen Gay? 2. Sublimely Bad 3. Unruly and Unresigned 4. Resisting Casanova 5. The Juvenilia of Charlotte Bront&&&235; 6. Shut Up, Sweet Charlotte 7. Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Groom 8. Flournoy's Complaint 9. Pipe Down Back There! 10. Very Fine Is My Valentine 11. If Everybody Had a Wadley 12. Night and Day 13. The Will to Whimsy 14. Terror on the Vineyard 15. Yes You Sweetheart
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