Castle Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

Essays on Women, Sex and Writing
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-22528-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten

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
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

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.