Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93873-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castle, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Brontë 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

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Castle has taught at Stanford since 1983. She has written five books ranging from Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth Century English Culture and Fiction to The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. She has won several awards and was nominated for the PEN Spielvogel-Diamodstean Award for the Art of the Essay.