A review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality"

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Title: A review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality"

Abstract:

Presented text is a review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perceptionof author gender and literary quality" by Dutch researcher Cornelia Koolen. Discussed book undertakesthe issues of relations between the gender of the author, evaluation of literary quality of their work andactual features of the texts, thus fitting in the larger trend of research on gender stereotypes in languageand literature. The innovative use of quantitative methods also grants it an important place within literatureon stylometric, making it an interdisciplinary work.