Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex and Writing
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Author 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.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This collection investigates the historical evolution and contemporary practice of the female critic within the landscape of literature and sexuality. Terry Castle, a scholar known for her incisive and witty prose, utilizes a blend of historical research and personal reflection to examine the intellectual contributions of women writers. She argues that the role of the female critic is both a learned tradition and a personal assertion of authority, tracing this lineage from the eighteenth century to the modern era.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Historical analysis of the emergence of female critics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Critical examinations of literary figures including Sappho, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Willa Cather, Colette, and Gertrude Stein
- A thematic exploration of the intersection between female genius, sexuality, and intellectual daring
- Personal essays reflecting on the author's own experiences and identity as a contemporary female critic
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Critics and readers frequently highlight Castle's ability to balance rigorous academic inquiry with a lively, accessible prose style. Experts often cite this collection as a significant contribution to the study of feminist literary criticism and the history of women's intellectual labor.
Page Count:
310
Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10:
0203699025
ISBN-13:
9780203699027
Non-Fiction
Women and literature
In literature
English literature
Feminism and literature
Women authors
Gender Studies
Literary Criticism
Essays
